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usb-creator package

  1. Bug #1048792
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 1048792

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deric (barton-tomas) wrote :

A workaround for this bug:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=1
$ sudo blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb

After zeroing out the first megabyte erasing of the usb disk works.

It is related to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/458334