Re: Using dd command and copy

[marco atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 10/19/2012 5:28 PM, wing cheng wrote:
> Unfortunately it is not working.... there are still files corrupted. Any
> idea?

use the list please.

> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:06 PM, marco atzeri  wrote:
>
>     On 10/19/2012 2:07 PM, chesschi wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         I am trying to write a script to do a "dd" to copy an image from
>         a local
>         disk to a USB flash drive followed by copying some other files
>         to the flash
>         drive.
>
>         e.g. if the flash drive is d and mapped to /dev/sdb
>               dd if=myfiles.iso of=/dev/sdb
>               cd myfolder
>               cp -rf */cygdrive/d
>
>
>         After dd and copy finishes, I eject the flash drive and reinsert
>         to the USB
>         port. I found that some of the files are courrpted!
>
>         If I dd first, eject the USB flash drive then do the copying, it
>         is okay.
>
>         Is there a way to automate this procedure without manually
>         ejecting the
>         flash drive? Thank you.
>
>
>     have you tested sync instead of ejecting ?


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