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From: staticsafe <me@××××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:45:41
Message-Id: 20130607164529.GA16414@uriel.asininetech.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc by Chris Stankevitz
1 On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:32:41AM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
3 > >> When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"?
4 > >
5 > > That's done by 'udev' based on what BIOS tells it.
6 >
7 > Hi Philip,
8 >
9 > Is this a true statement:
10 >
11 > Some people do not use udev. These people still have a /dev/sda.
12 > Therefore something other than udev is giving drives the name
13 > "/dev/sda".
14 >
15 > Thank you,
16 >
17 > Chris
18 >
19 Yes, the kernel does this.
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