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Forgot
/dev/hdx
?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
I always thought my drive names changed from hdx to sdx because I started using an SSD, and yet...
You always learn something new
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.