Ubuntu
usb-creator package

  1. Bug #346700
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 346700

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jruss (jruss) wrote : Re: [jaunty alpha 6+ daily] usb-creator creates incorrect free, persistent space; to /cdrom not /

I have tracked down a more serious problem. The current version of usb-creator in jaunty beta tries to create the casper-rw file as one large block, when actually it should use a reasonable block size like 1k and then create right number of blocks. This is what is causing the "dd: invalid number" errors in ~/.usb-creator.log and causing the casper-rw file not to be created. If you surpass the 4 GB file size you will get a file too large error (or something like that). There are patches with this bug that should address both of these issues.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/321544