Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:09:21 -0400 From: Randy Pratt <rpratt@ezwv.com> To: James Zuelow <jfzuelow@alaska.net>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: long device names Message-ID: <200110040109.VAA07194@mail.ezwv.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110031600220.655-100000@Hobbes.sodorline.home> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110031600220.655-100000@Hobbes.sodorline.home>
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On Wednesday 03 October 2001 08:12 pm, James Zuelow wrote: > 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!) Check out the Handbook section on Allocating Disk Space: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html There is some information there about the disk layout and naming that might help some. HTH, Randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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