Formatting USB Drive

[Steven Heimann]

Alex

Thanks for the advice but the problem is not in creating the partition.
That worked fine.  The problem is in formatting the partition once it is
created.  I can access the partition and the formatting process starts
to write to it but before the procedure can finish the disk will move
from say /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sdc1.  I think it might be something to do
with USB hot plugging which I do not understand.

Any other suggestions greatfully accepted

Steven


On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 13:43 -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
> Steven Heimann wrote:

> ---snip ---

> > I have a problem where the formatting process seems to freeze part way
> > through.  I have tied this a number of times with and without bad block
> > checking.
> > 
> > The problem seems to be that for some reason the USB mounting mechanism,
> > which I don't understand, decides to move the partition somewhere else
> > part way through the procedure.  

> ---snip ---

>  
> > i.e. the external drive has suddenly moved from sdc1 to sdd1.
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me how to get around this problem?
> > 
> > Thank you and regards
> > Steven
> > 
> > 
> In my use of Partitioning tools(Gparted, QTParted) you need to make sure 
> the drive you want to work with is not mounted.  At least this has been 
> my experience with Live disks.
> 
> I'm not sure how this differs from what you actually tried. But another 
> suggestion would be to clear the drive completely of any partitions 
> before you try to put a new one on. NTFS can be a real pain.
> 
> Alex
> 
>