Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 20:42:20 -0400 From: "Russell A. Khurshudian" <russell_k@acedsl.com> To: "James Zuelow" <jfzuelow@alaska.net>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: long device names Message-ID: <000501c14c6d$6d466240$0200a8c0@networld> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110031600220.655-100000@Hobbes.sodorline.home>
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s1 means that it is on the first slice (DOS partition). The letters a-h are appended to the device names to uniquely identify the FreeBSD partitions (/, /usr/, /var, /home, etc..) Please correct me if i'm wrong. Also, what is the difference between character and block devices? ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Zuelow" <jfzuelow@alaska.net> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 8:12 PM Subject: long device names > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the messagehelp
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