On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 12:31 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > Doesn't it make you nostalgic for the MS-DOS/Windows notion of drive > letters? Man, compared to this, that was simplicity itself. 8^) 8^) > (and just for emphasis) 8^) NO! What drive letter will my second partition be today? Will it be "d" (as I'd like), or "e" (because there's a CD-ROM)? Will it be "f" because I plugged in another drive, even though I plugged it in later in the chain. Likewise for booting from a CD. After doing so, the drive letters can re-arrange, especially if the CD installed some pseudo device. It's that sort of crap (shuffling positions) that made me dispair of the decision to make all Linux hard drives /dev/sd<something>. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
