From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 3 17:36:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from alaska.net (kitsune.nwc.alaska.net [209.112.130.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C557A37B403 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:36:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Hobbes.sodorline.home (6-pm3.jdc.alaska.net [209.112.136.6]) by alaska.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA03215 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:36:44 -0800 (AKDT) Received: from Hobbes.sodorline.home (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by Hobbes.sodorline.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2219F1E5DB for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:13:08 -0800 (AKDT) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:12:48 -0800 (AKDT) From: James Zuelow To: Subject: long device names Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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