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| From: | Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o> | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc | ||
| Date: | Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:33:00 | ||
| Message-Id: | CAPi0pstuaDq5qdtM9ea48P3Bo2k0r=XVQW2XuKx06B6z3vUemg@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc by Philip Webb |
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| 1 | On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
| 2 | >> When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"? |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > That's done by 'udev' based on what BIOS tells it. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Hi Philip, |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Is this a true statement: |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Some people do not use udev. These people still have a /dev/sda. |
| 11 | Therefore something other than udev is giving drives the name |
| 12 | "/dev/sda". |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Thank you, |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Chris |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc | staticsafe <me@××××××××××.ca> |