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Image burner and USB thumb formatter? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 I've tried a couple from my distro's store but they don't work on my thumb or they are broken or outdated.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 years ago (1 children)

dd?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

What?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago (1 children)

use this https://www.balena.io/etcher/

cheers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Agreed. Etcher is by far the best GUI option available for linux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Ventoy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

I second this. With Ventoy, you just copy over the ISO files, meaning you don't waste the flash drive's precious write cycles, and this makes it easier to create multiboot USBs (which is what sold me on it). And they support BIOS and UEFI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Popsicle is super easy and reliable. i've used it several times and i've never had any problem with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

can i format my usb with it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

only to burn an image