A question about burning USB stick

[Colin Law]

On 8 January 2011 11:14, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon at decoulon.ch> wrote:
> On Saturday 08 January 2011 11:18:07 am Colin Law wrote:
>> That is interesting, I have just tried
>> dd if=myfile.bin of=/dev/sdb
>> and get
>> dd: opening `/dev/sdb': Permission denied
>>
>> Colin
>
> I can confirm both making an image (dd if=/dev/sde of=/<partition>/test.img)
> and writing back (dd if=/<partition>/test.img of=/dev/sde) work _if_ I am
> root or use sudo. I get your error message when I try as a normal user.

OK, I thought you said you did not need to use sudo.

Colin