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When putting Debian.iso onto a flash drive do you have to use root? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 weeks ago by BobGnarley@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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On Debian's website it is saying to write the image to the USB stick I should use a bash script "# cp Debian.iso /dev/sdX

sync"

Is there another way to do this without using root access?

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[–] lungdart@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 weeks ago

Raw disk access is a privilege in Linux, usually reserved for root.

You could have root change the permissions on the directory to allow another user or group write access.