I have a bootable USB stick that I originally created from an ISO file.
If I now edit a file on this USB stick, will it still boot and work properly?
The ISO installs a modified version of CentOS and I made the USB bootable with UNetbootin.
Answer
I made a bootable USB stick from an ISO file. If I edit a file on this
USB stick, will it still boot and work properly?
A bootable USB flash drive is no different than any bootable device. If I edit files in my documents directory on a USB flash drive it’s no different than editing files on a hard drive.
Heck, I can edit the contents of an application on my hard drive I can still boot my hard drive… The application might be hosed, but my overall system works. But if I edited a system file I might cause a problem that could cause the system to fail if I edited the file in a way that… Just puts the system at risk.
But this is all dependent on what file you have edited and where you did it and how you did it and is not unique to you creating a bootable USB flash drive from an ISO or otherwise.
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