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- From: Rob.Levin@f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Device names (was Re: ttys2 not responding)
- Message-ID: <711742044.F00069@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 08:09:20 -0800
- Sender: Gatekeeper@remote.halcyon.com
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- TT> This is very confusing - drive _letters_ are a DOS anachronism and
- TT> should have no place in Linux. Drives should be numbered starting
- at
- TT> 0 and partitions should be given letters starting a 'a' so eg.
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- TT> /dev/hd0a is the first partition on the first drive
- TT> /dev/hd1a is the first partition on the second drive etc.
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- You seem to be arguing that, because something is done a certain way in
- DOS, it is anathema. I'll be interested in hearing other, more
- substantive, arguments. ;-)
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- TT> partitions can overlap, and it is conventional on BSD Unix to
- assign
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- Could you be more specific on the BSD convention for hard disk naming?
- And for partitions, if such a thing exists in the vanilla BSD
- environment?
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- Thanks,
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- Rob L.
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- * Origin: Via the Annex in Victoria, TX (1:3802/217)
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