From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 3 18: 9:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ezwv.com (hermes.ezwv.com [208.163.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC24737B403 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 18:09:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (ip206102032145.dlup.ezwv.com [206.102.32.145]) by mail.ezwv.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA07194; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:09:18 -0400 Message-Id: <200110040109.VAA07194@mail.ezwv.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Randy Pratt To: James Zuelow , Subject: Re: long device names Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:09:21 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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