#partitiontables — Public Fediverse posts

🎩🤡 Breaking news: someone discovered USB drives aren’t magic! If you ever wanted to know how to make your live Linux USB slightly less useless, here’s a guide that explains it all with the excitement of watching paint dry. Apparently, it involves partition tables and the magical incantation of "dd" – who knew? 🙄🔧
https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2026/05/28/smdBC8.html #USBdrives #LinuxGuide #dd #Command #TechTips #PartitionTables #HackerNews #ngated

🎩🤡 Breaking news: someone discovered USB drives aren’t magic! If you ever wanted to know how to make your live Linux USB slightly less useless, here’s a guide that explains it all with the excitement of watching paint dry. Apparently, it involves partition tables and the magical incantation of "dd" – who knew? 🙄🔧
https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2026/05/28/smdBC8.html #USBdrives #LinuxGuide #dd #Command #TechTips #PartitionTables #HackerNews #ngated

The #Debian "hybrid 9660" format *really* upsets #FreeBSD's geom.

geom decides that the fake EFI partition table is totally invalid and ignores it, then gets upset by Debian's abuse of type 0 for a valid MBR-style partition, then gets upset by overlapping primary partitions.

#ISO9660 #PartitionTables