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I had a USB flash of 32GB with actual size of around 28GB. I put an image of 28.5GB containing 2 CentOS partition, which has some free space at the end of it. I thought it will not harm my USB. But after the dd command ended, my USB is bricked and in read-only state now. Is there anyway to recover my USB or should I giveup on it?

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    You cannot physically write a larger image to the device. dd will just just fail instead. // USB drives die, especially when heavily used. – Daniel B Mar 16 '24 at 18:03
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    dd (or Rufus, or balenaEtcher, or …) cannot directly break a USB flash drive (nor any drive). In general drives very rarely die randomly when being disconnected or idle, but they die randomly when being used. Overwriting a whole flash drive is a strain. The drive should survive it and it usually does; but if it's going to fail, it will probably fail during "heavy load", not when used "lightly". – Kamil Maciorowski Mar 16 '24 at 19:00

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