[clug] Getting rid of a multiple drives on a USB drive

[jhock]

Hi owen,

Thanks so much for your reply. Today I tried what you suggested and I'm
still in the same boat. The problem isn't the paritions. It is the
multiple drives on the one USB stick and they do not add up to the 2 GB
that the stick is supposed to have.

When I do the fdisk -l I get two devices that are the one USB drive.
They are:

Disk /dev/sdd: 1 MB, 1474560 bytes
Disk /dev/sdc: 497 MB, 497549312 bytes

This totals only 500 MB when I use to have 2GB on the one drive.

Can you tell me how to combine these two devices and get back the full 2
GB of the USB memory stick?

Thanks.

John

> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks for the great suggestions so I had a go at it this afternoon
> > but
> > still no luck. I'm running UBUNTU 10 so the suggested drivers (eg.
> > launchPadRemoval) don't work on this machine.
> >
> > Below is the /var/log/messages content when I plug in the USB drive.
> > These messages don't mean much to me. Does it help anyone else?  I
> > still
> > only have a 480mb and 1.5mb drives but where has the rest of the 2gb
> > gone? Its a LEGEND memory stick if that helps.
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> 
> > Apr 10 17:38:29 john-laptop kernel: [ 8233.314288] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc]
> > Attached SCSI removable disk
> > Apr 10 17:38:29 john-laptop kernel: [ 8233.315717] sd 6:0:0:1: [sdd]
> > Attached SCSI removable disk
> 
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> 
> Try.
> 
> 
> # fdisk -l
> 
> you should get all your hdd plus the details of /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd.
> If necessary, unmount both
> 
> # fdisk /dev/sdc
> 
> press p (for print) and then delete any partitions
> 
> Now when you press 'p' it should show nothing
> 
> So now go ahead and add whatever partition(s) you want
> 
> Set the type
> 
> write it out
> 
> Them format your new partition(s)
> 
> GParted should do the same, from a gui
> 
> See what happens
> 
> 
> 
> Owen
>