On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt wrote:
They don't need to be implemented anywhere. The partitions are named when you name the device files, which could be named anything you want. I could make /dev/harddrive1 point to device 8, 0 (/dev/sda normally). If the utilities that manipulate device are written correctly (fdisk), the partitions should show up as:
Yes, it should show up as this. But only, if the Kernel (Or mk) can understand the way how partitions are written to disk. (Partition Tabke Format). I came in contact with this stuff, when I tried to use a RDB-Harddisk from an Amiga 68k in my P100 System. Linux recognized /dev/hdc but not /dev/hdc1,hdc2,hdc3.
Granted, but that doesn't have anything to do with the *names*. My point was that although ~100% of Linux machines follow the /dev/{s,d}d[a-h][1-16] scheme for hard drives, this isn't mandatory. I could name them anything I want, and as long as the device works in the first place, it will continue to work with the new name.
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