From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 21 10:22:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0958637B401 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:22:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4314F43EDC for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:22:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: from nkinkade by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18PoGf-00065B-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:22:33 -0800 Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:22:33 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help mounting ext2/3, ntfs [was: ] Message-ID: <20021221182233.GK5605@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Reply-To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021221154712.GJ5605@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 04:31:45PM +0000, Voicu Liviu wrote: > > That said, assuming that you are using IDE HDDs, you device names will > > probably correspond between Linux -> FreeBSD something like: > > > > FreeBSD -> Linux > > /dev/ad0s1 -> /dev/hda1 > > /dev/ad0s2 -> /dev/hda1 > > /dev/ad0s3 -> /dev/hda1 > > /dev/ad0s4 -> /dev/hda1 > I just don't understand why does FreeBSD work like that > "/dev/ad0s_number_here". > Voicu Liviu > Hebrew University of Jerusalem > Rothberg International School > Network Support and Assistant Programmer It's really no different from the Linux system of naming in most respects. The names/numbers are arbitrary. Does the Linux systems of /dev/hda_number_here make sense to you? If so, then /dev/ad0s_number_here should not be any stretch. The main difference being that FreeBSD generally likes to further segment a slice (partition in DOS) into separate filesystems i.e. /, /usr, /home, etc. I've heard it said that the way in which FreeBSD segments a given slice (partition in DOS) is not unlike that of how DOS handles an extended partition, although I don't know for myself how accurate this is. At any rate, it seems to me that this systems offers a good degree of flexibility, as FreeBSD will nicely fit into a single primary partition. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message