Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:12:48 -0800 (AKDT) From: James Zuelow <jfzuelow@alaska.net> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: long device names Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110031600220.655-100000@Hobbes.sodorline.home>
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I have a heterogenous home network - Windows/RedHat/Debian/OpenBSD and now FreeBSD, 4.4 installed yesterday. (Note that I've only been running *nix for about a year, so I am definately not an expert.) While I wait for Annelise's book to arrive, I've been poking around the FreeBSD box and immediately got hit with the long device names. The Linux device names are all short - for example sdb4 - and make sense to me. OpenBSD rearrages things - for example sd1d - but it still makes sense. What in the world is an ad0s1a? I get the ad0 part (first IDE drive), but why s1a instead of just a-z? I'm not asking about how to read df -h or mount partitions, but rather the why the partitions are named like this. Man device didn't help much. It sure does make mounting a cd that much slower (two extra characters to type - gotta be a quarter second at least!) -- James Z. -- "What is a packet, if its chief good and market of its time be but to route and wrap?" (Amazon.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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