We can make bootable USB drive for openSUSE in several ways. In openSUSE itself, there is a graphical program named SUSE Image Writer available for this case. In Ubuntu, there is no SUSE Image Writer available. But we can use available GNU dd command to do the same job. To locate exactly the USB device we can use lsblk and blkid tools. To show dd output in a (almost) real time way we can use pkill tool. Note: using dd will erase all the data inside the USB drive, so please make backup first. Here the procedures provided step by step.

The only aim of this article is to save all devices and partitions from damage in a GNU/Linux system when you are performing any formatting action from the command line. This is applicable if you can show all partitions available in your system. There are some command line programs to do it. By using these, you can avoid any false formatting action or any other disaster (incorrect dd command, data loss, incorrectly formatted partition) because you will know exactly what device you want to format. They are fdisk, lsblk, blkid, and df. They are built-in tools in Ubuntu operating system.