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Re: A problem using "dd" on Cygwin
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo dot graziosi at alice dot it>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 04:37:01 +0300
- Subject: Re: A problem using "dd" on Cygwin
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Greetings, Angelo Graziosi!
> I was playing with "dd" command to "install" an ISO image on an USB key
> (to make it bootable). The USB key has size 8 GiB and I did this (as
> Administrator):
> $ dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M
> (image.iso has a size of 1.6 GiB). After this the USB key has a size
> (partition) of about 2.3 GiB: the remaining space is unallocated.
> How to restore its original status?
diskpart
> How can we proceed on Cygwin?
Nothing to do with Cygwin.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 02.03.2015, <04:36>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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