Bug 712553 - Solve the iso9660 USB problem
Summary: Solve the iso9660 USB problem
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: livecd-tools
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Brian Lane
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-11 03:46 UTC by Brian Lane
Modified: 2011-08-11 23:40 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: livecd-tools-17.0-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-08-11 23:40:19 UTC
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Description Brian Lane 2011-06-11 03:46:35 UTC
Description of problem:
if you dd an iso to the usb and then later use livecd-iso-to-disk to overwrite it the iso9660 signature is still present (offset 8000?) so tools like blkid think it is an iso.

I need to do one of the following
 1. just wipe the first 1M using dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1 of=device
 2. detect that the blkid thinks it is iso9660 instead of extX or vfat

I'm leaning towards doing #1 when we do a --reset-mbr since that involves wiping everything anyway there is no chance for data loss.


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