Somebody in the thread at some point said: > At the start of each line is a number. > > Memory is "1" > The 2 harddrives on ide0 are "3" > The harddrive on the pci ide adaptor card is "33" > The 2 optical drives on ide1 are "22" > The optical drive on the pci ide adaptor card is "34" > md0 is "9" > And fd0 is "2" > > Is there someplace where this numbering system is explained? These are the Major device numbers... if you look at /dev/sda for example it is a block device Major *8* (SCSI I suppose) and Minor 0. sda1 is Major 8 Minor 1 and so on. > btw: What's md0? Software raid device. -Andy
