RE: Failure to dd diskboot.img to pen drive

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• Subject: RE: Failure to dd diskboot.img to pen drive
• From: "Miner, Jonathan W \(CSC\) \(US SSA\)" <jonathan.w.miner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:59:51 -0500
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• Thread-topic: Failure to dd diskboot.img to pen drive

>
> # ll /dev/sdb1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12582912 2007-11-15 17:56 /dev/sdb1
>

Since the device name didn't exist in the /dev directory, the 'dd' command created a 12GB file! You should go clean that up.

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