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- From: s.telford@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Device names (was Re: ttys2 not responding)
- Message-ID: <39573@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 11:56:28 GMT
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- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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- In article <711742044.F00069@remote.halcyon.com>, Rob.Levin@f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin) writes:
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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. ;-)
-
- I don't know, sounds good enough to me 8^)
-
- > 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?
-
- Paraphrased from the SunOS manual (sd(4)), the conventions are:
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- sd?a: root FS
- sd?b: swap
- sd?c: entire disk (hd?0 in Linux)
- sd?[d-h]: other FSs (using the h partition for home FSs is a nice
- mnemonic thing to do). All of [d-h] don't have to exist.
-
- where ? is the disk number, starting at 0, and sd is the SCSI disk device.
-
- If I remember rightly, VAX 4.2BSD was much the same, apart from ra(?)
- instead of sd devices.
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