Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 17 Jan 1998 23:59:04 -0500 (EST) | | From | linux kernel account <> | | Subject | Re: devfs |
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On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
[snip] > > You're forgetting that someone researched this and reported that "s" and "d" > > originally stood for "device" and "subdevice", which is more general than > > partitions or slices and not inherently wrong for fdisk. That's the definition > > I adopted, not "slice". I still think that /dev/sd/c0b0t0d0 is a reasonable > > choice for a whole disk and /dev/sd/c0b0t0d0s1 etc for PC style partitions. If > > we need to incorporate further subdivisions for slices, we can easily extend > > this to /dev/sd/c0b0t0d0s1.2 to refer to slice 2 within PC partition 1. I > > think we should retain the convention of referring to logical partitions as > > subdevices 5..N for compatibility with present Linux systems. > > It does seem inconsistent to have letters delimiting all the other > parameters except the slices. If you can come up with a different > letter for "slice" which doesn't sound too contrived, I'd prefer > that. Right now 's' could be either "subdevice" or "slice". One could > use 'l' for discLabel, but that looks too much like '1'. > > Regards, > > Richard....
Nope, it's a decmil number!!!
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