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Yeah yeah, we know you're special (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Forgot /dev/hdx ?

[–] Supermariofan67 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That one hasn't been around for a long time, since the Linux kernel started using a SCSI abstraction layer above many of the other storage protocols. Really cool stuff: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/The_Linux_Storage_Stack_Diagram.svg/1161px-The_Linux_Storage_Stack_Diagram.svg.png

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I always thought my drive names changed from hdx to sdx because I started using an SSD, and yet...

You always learn something new

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I once had to do GRUB related stuff with CentOS 5 (or was it 3?).
Stuff started with 0 in it and I was kept wondering what I was selecting, because the naming convention in GRUB was different from that in the OS.