Is there any image burner and USB thumb formatter you would recommend me? obviously libre and for Linux. I’ve tried a couple from my distro’s store but they don’t work on my thumb or they are broken or outdated.

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    4 years ago

    it’s commonly used utility

    burning an os image to a usb is as simple as sudo dd if=/path/to/input.iso of=/dev/? status=progress

    where /path/to/input.iso is a full path to the location of the os image, and /dev/? is the usb device you’re writing to (you can find it using the lsblk command, and status=progress is to just see the progress bar

    be careful tho, if you enter a wrong drive in the destination, you can erase your os or whatever there is, which is why the utility is sometimes called disk destroyer :)

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      4 years ago

      0h, okay, i forgot t0 say that i would prefer something with a gui since im pretty much a noob using the cli, can i format a usb to use it back a normal one with that, too? cos i have a really big one which hasnt been used for some time because of that

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        yes, you can format it using dd, but you’d have to manually partition it and install the file system etc

        may i then recommend balena etcher for burning os images, it has a nice gui, worked perfectly every time i used it

        and for formatting maybe gparted

        both are very popular, and should be in the official repos of your os :)