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Subject: Re: long device names
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 20:42:20 -0400
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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)
>
>
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