Reformatting a USB stick that shows up as two devices?

[Adam Funk]

On 2008-11-20, Chris G wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:12:34AM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
>> 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?

(That should read "partitions /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdd1".)


>> It's certainly possible.  I would just use fdisk to delete both existing 
>> partitions and create a single partition that covers the entire drive. 
>
> If the USB stick *really* appears as /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd it's two
> drives so that fdisk will see two 'entire drives' to partition.

That's the case.  Sorry about the mistake above.


> Deleting the partitions doesn't help at all.
>
> I suspect though that the symptoms are due to un-removed remains from
> previous times the USB stick has been plugged in.

No, every time I plug it in, both devices appear, and every time I
unplug it, both disappear.