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How to check if the ISO was written to my USB stick without errors?

I followed these DebianEeePC HowTo InstallUsingStandardInstaller instructions at the Debian Wiki, to write a Debian ISO to my USB. dd if=debian-*-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX Using sha1sum, I can check ...
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How should I format a USB prior to writing an ISO to it?

I found these Debian EeePC HowToInstallUsingStandardInstaller instructions at the Debian Wiki, stating that I can install an ISO to a USB using this: dd if=debian-*-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX Do I ...
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What filesystem should be used when transfering files between Linux systems?

I often need to move files between two Linux computers via USB. I use gparted to format the USBs. When I formatted the USB to use FAT32, the USB was unable to copy symlinks, so I had to recreate the ...
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Does the filesystem influence flash drive speed?

I'm currently filling up an empty 16GB flash drive which gives me a lot of time for imponderables. It's formatted as fat32 or whatever it came with (and I'll probably leave it that way for ease of ...
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Formatting external drive in CentOS previously used on OS X

I have a USB key they I want to use on a CentOS box. The USB key was previously used on OS X so I want to erase it to make it writable by CentOS. Can someone help me with the commands I need to run? ...
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Serve files over USB

I would like to be able to serve a section of my box's file system over USB to another computer. For example, if the files are on box A and I am reading from box B, then B would mount A, see those ...
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Using a differencing, aka overlay, aka union, file-system with commit capability

I work in two PCs and I sync all my files from my primary PC to a USB flash memory. In my second PC, I mount the USB flash memory to the same path to work on my files as I were on my primary PC. Now ...