Re: usb pen blocked after using dd

[Philip Rowlands]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Emmanuel Wilhelm wrote:

> sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx (take a while and wipe everything)
>
> sudo mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda
>
> The key is on /dev/sdh, but when I did the first command, I receive the
> message:
>
>
> dd: writing to `/dev/sdh': no free space on the device
> 2+0 red recordings
> 1+0 written recordings
> 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0,00164514 second, 311 kB/s
>
> Is my key hs or have I a hope to solve this problem?

Given your example command, dd will simply write to the device until 
either the read filehandle returns EOF (which /dev/zero should not) or 
the write filehandle returns ENOSPC.

It's possible that your USB drive has a fault. Are you able to use it 
correctly on other systems? Does dd perform as expected when you try a 
different USB drive?


Cheers,
Phil