From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 570441381F3 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 16:33:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6513E0999; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 16:32:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f169.google.com (mail-ie0-f169.google.com [209.85.223.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9AC39E096E for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 16:32:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f169.google.com with SMTP id 10so11376042ied.0 for ; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:32:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=a4p6MnE84yLwMhAzXlYUsG6kUcojFQJYgHomWx+mkEY=; b=HTtSiGE1Dgp2BkDrSRCf/FH6b6VHmsJdxJsnIOZoiDlI9PoguBzsOUW1vGnv5O7Mih 3h4j3JDs45aZvLyaUHddiGlRFaVj+T/HVnKO6D/eVFINUWHX4m2vty9v0ySxkDCzv1H7 r+4zHKnOSqBDLVwkRkqLWURjCP/nEKOCsOfrdY+vQ+uAcy06OB7FkF9ngyVswFJY7zaB 3aD4JjqtVqA9N2TJJlD5ptr0qgI6hp9Lv/3sTq6Y/omwEHCNDtnuESMl0A0Wz7b/HoBa +4IAaDWFVRq3X0yx18RhEG9PySoyX52bWKTU76E0Ucwbi1WJVaSmBMLqw0YAlV/SaOxi QJmA== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.40.34 with SMTP id u2mr1817687igk.16.1370622761758; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:32:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.26.137 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 09:32:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130607094309.GA864@ca.inter.net> References: <20130607094309.GA864@ca.inter.net> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 09:32:41 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc From: Chris Stankevitz To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 5d90fc63-92a9-4787-81f2-b4beca26388d X-Archives-Hash: 2ceea34de9140eccb1b1931f4b7c6a55 On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Philip Webb 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