On 07/08/2010 06:08 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Abu Attar Musharih > <abuattar.musharih@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I made a live bootable Fedora-13 on Buffalo 8G usb stick using Linux command >> >>> dd if=Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/sdb1 >> It was successful apart from no longer able to copy any file on it. >> The live Fedora only occupied 700M while the media is 8G. >> >> I got the following message when trying to copy a file on it, even if >> with the root privilege. >> >>> cp mag01.doc /media/Fedora-13-i686-Live/ >> cp: cannot create regular file `/media/Fedora-13-i686-Live/mag01.doc': >> Read-only file system > When you copied the image directly onto the device you in effect > destroyed the exisiting file system, that's the downside to using the > "dd" method. > >> I removed any existing partition using /sbin/fdisk and reformatted >> with command line >> >> /sbin/mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb >> >> What I have now is a single partition with only 6.8 Gb free space. > I think you should have used: > > mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 > >> The question, how can I recover the original volume amount, 8G. If >> this is related to the file systems (ext3), which one should I choose >> so the volume get back to the original. >> >> Thanks for any kind of response. > You seem to be fairly comfortable using the command line, but a > graphical tool would make this much easier to see what's going on. I > would install "gparted" if you're using gnome or "qtparted" and > repartition& reformat from there. > > Also, if you would like to have access from a windows machine I would > reformat as FAT32. Actually in retrospect, I believe the > liveusb-creator tool[1] will format it for you and will allow you to > setup a persistent overlay so changes can be saved. Keep in mind it's > not that intelligent, from what I understand it just records block > changes from the livecd image and does not reuse any part of the > overlay, i.e. changes will continue to be tracked until the entire > overlay is used up at which point it is automatically dropped as a > fail-safe. > > Richard > > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo Just install liveusb-creator-3.9.2-1.fc13.noarch and it will install the iso you select onto the usb stick. I have used it to install F13 onto a usb stick and it works; albeit - slower than a slug! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
