Reformatting a USB stick that shows up as two devices?

Carl Friis-Hansen ubuntuuser at carl-fh.com
Thu Nov 20 12:28:31 UTC 2008


Adam Funk wrote:
> I have a USB memory stick that shows up as two drive devices (/dev/sdc
> and /dev/sdd, along with partitions /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2).  Is it
> possible to reformat the whole thing into one?

Normally yes.
You could use fdisk or gperted to repartition the whole stick to 
whatever file system you prefer.
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