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Insert the stick and let it automount. Whatever.
Run cfdisk /dev/sdc
Delete all partitions and write changes.
Remove and reinsert stick.
Run cfdisk /dev/sdc again, create one Linux partition and write changes.
Run dd to write the image.
Wait until it finishes.
The stick will automount again. Whatever.
Shake head in disgust.
Unmount /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2 (yes, I had both. go figure)
Remove the stick.
If a USB stick has a LABELs on its filesystems, for each that has an entry in fstab, with a noauto option, that filesystem won't be automounted. You can use that same set of LABELs for as many sticks as you please, and none will automount.
To eliminate the content of a stick, you don't need a partitioner. Simply use dd to write nonsense, nulls or zeros to the first sector(s). After removal, there won't be any filesystems to automount on next insertion.
Shot in the dark(*): if you use the GUI to unmount, maybe it also "eject"s the USB. Then it doesn't show up under /dev anymore.
(*) your descriptions show your frustration but not much information.
Nautilus on fedora does exactly that. It both dismounts the file systems and ejects the device.
In order to use dd and write the iso to the usb drive it is necessary, from the command line, to check what is mounted, use umount to unmount the partition(s) from the usb device that may have automounted, then use dd to write the iso to the device. Partitions created do not automount again until the device is unplugged and plugged back in.
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