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Description of problem: When you use dd (either the Delphi version by Chrysocome or the one shipped with Cygwin) to write a Fedora Live image to a flash drive, it fails the media check that is ran when you choose the "Test the media and start Fedora Live" option (the default). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora-*-23-11.iso media are affected How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use dd to write your Fedora live image to a flash drive (i.e. dd if=Fedora-<something>.iso of=\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE1) 2. Reboot and boot to the portable drive Actual results: Media check fails Expected results: Media check succeeds Additional info: This is caused by the fact Windows (seems this behavior is present since Windows 8.1) creates a "System Volume Information" folder on every drive that's connected to the system, so even this fresh drive. This folder then makes the media check fail. Possible solutions are: 1) To provide our own System Volume Information folder that's not writable or in some other way prevent its creation/modification 2) Change the way checkisomd5 works with this folder 3) Tell the users to turn this Windows feature off
Oh, forgot to mention this is related to the second partition - the EFI labeled one.
Ok, I think I found a way to prevent this, a while after reporting the bug. Closing for now and will report back with details
Use liveusb-creator to make usb drives on windows - https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/. If Windows is adding things to the drive then it isn't really a dd operation.
I'm maintaining the liveusb-creator and I'm trying to write a working dd backend so it behaves the same on all platforms. Regarding this issue, it seems you just have to force-unmount the drive after dd-ing it to prevent the folder from appearing.