Reformatting a USB stick that shows up as two devices?

[Adam Funk]

On 2008-11-20, Mark Haney wrote:

> Adam Funk wrote:
>> I typed some of that wrong.  It shows up as two devices, /dev/sdc and
>> /dev/sdd, and each has its own single partition, /dev/sdc1 and
>> /dev/sdd1, respectively.

> Hmm, I've seen this alot on my MP3 player (not so much my flash drive 
> since I rarely if ever leave it connected for any but the shortest 
> periods of time.  (My MP3 player uses the USB port to charge the battery.)
>
> It might be HAL making it LOOK like two devices and partitions.  I've 
> seen HAL recognize a flash device, mount it, then mount it again on the 
> next free drive letter available (hence sdc, then sdd)
>
> The recommendation of unmounting to see if the drive disappear isn't 
> going to help in this case.  As HAL is likely to unmount both drives 
> together.

Both drives can be mounted and unmounted separately using pmount &
pumount (or Nautilus).

The drives have different sizes too.