s-MacBook-Air:Downloads bingling$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 120.5 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +120.1 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
FE5747F9-9429-4F18-9476-5E1CA285617F
Unlocked Encrypted
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Untitled *8.0 GB disk2
s-MacBook-Air:Downloads bingling$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful
s-MacBook-Air:Downloads bingling$ dd if=./kubuntu-16.10-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m; sync
dd: /dev/disk2: Permission denied
s-MacBook-Air:Downloads bingling$ sudo dd if=./kubuntu-16.10-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m; sync