* Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc
@ 2013-06-07 16:45 99% ` staticsafe
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From: staticsafe @ 2013-06-07 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:32:41AM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> >> When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"?
> >
> > That's done by 'udev' based on what BIOS tells it.
>
> Hi Philip,
>
> Is this a true statement:
>
> Some people do not use udev. These people still have a /dev/sda.
> Therefore something other than udev is giving drives the name
> "/dev/sda".
>
> Thank you,
>
> Chris
>
Yes, the kernel does this.
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