Reformatting a USB stick that shows up as two devices?

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Nov 21 02:45:55 UTC 2008


Adam Funk wrote:
>> If the storage is physically divided that way, then I'm not sure merging 
>> the two together to be a good idea.  You'd need SW RAID and it being a 
>> mobile device I don't know that would be safe for the data on the device.
>>
>> I hope at least SOME of that made sense.
> 
> It all made sense!  Thanks.

I agree, you'll probably have to do some sort of software raid or union
FS. It's not worth it for the extra space, but it might be a "fun"
exercise.  One other even harder possibility is to change the firmware
to make it appear to be one device.

Matt Flaschen




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