POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Today's quest : Re: Today's quest Server Time
29 Jul 2024 12:28:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Today's quest  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 29 Feb 2012 21:50:54
Message: <4f4ee40e@news.povray.org>
On 2/29/2012 1:58 AM, Invisible wrote:
> On 29/02/2012 03:02 AM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 2/27/2012 12:15, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>> So, uh, anyway... Can I literally just do a block-level copy from the
>>> ISO
>>
>> Do *not* do a block-level copy to a USB stick if you ever want that
>> stick to ever work again.
>
> Any specific reason?
>
> I mean, I gather it's fairly easy to utterly screw up the filesystem in
> this way - but you can always just format the drive again. It's not hard.
One issue may be that some are specially designed, including security 
locking, and other secondary partitions, and they may simply stop 
working at all, if things go missing that needs to be there. But, yeah, 
would be kind of interesting to know why.


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