On Thursday 27 September 2007 18:18, Andy Green wrote: > 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 Thanks for that Andy. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
