Re: reformat a USB with cd image

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On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 15:36 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 09:54 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 16:12 +1000, Lux Zhang wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have a USB with a livecd image written on it (using dd if livecd.iso
> > > of /dev/sdc ). How to revert it to FAT  or  other file system?
> > 
> > Run fdisk on it to create partitions of the appropriate type, then
> > "mkfs -t whatever" to create the filesystems.  In other words, treat
> > it like any other hard drive.
> > 
> > NOTE: You only have a limited number of write cycles on a FLASH memory.
> > Use them wisely!
> 500,000 I was told today. That is 499,999 more than a CD-RW.
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I don't think so...

perhaps if you had said CD-R, I would have agreed with you but a CD-RW
has a lot more write cycles than 1

-- 
Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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