Formatting USB Drive

[Alex Mandel]

Steven Heimann wrote:
> 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
> 

Try messing with the Udev rules so the drive mounts to the same point 
everytime, that way if it is dropping and the remounting at least it'll 
come back to the same mount point.
Here are some links and examples I picked up from some friends:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7316

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html

mattrope at hades:~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/060_local.rules
     # Local udev rules

     # Iomega USB hard drive
     BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?1", SYSFS{product}=="Iomega HDD USB 2.0 
Drive", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="usbhd"

     # Neuros MP3 player
     BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?1", SYSFS{product}=="NEUROS Digital Audio 
Device", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="neuros"

     # Picture Card reader
     BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?1", SYSFS{product}=="Flash Reader", 
NAME="%k", SYMLINK="piccard"


See if that works, Alex