Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> In the process, we can rename the then-"generic disk" (scsi ide whatever) >>> back to "hd*" since that actually expands to Hard Disk. >>> (If I would have known a lot earlier about Linux I would have proposed >>> "id*" for the IDE disks.) >>> >> Actually that does make more sense then using disk. So I guess we're >> back to square one. Personally I don't think its that big of a deal, all >> you have to do is change fstab and grub or lilo. My main concern is for >> the less advanced Linux users. > > Less advanced users should use the upgrade tools their distribution > provides. And personally I think less advanced users will be very happy with /dev/disk (or /dev/hd). No more confusion wether to user /dev/hdx or /dev/sdx or whatever! Philippe Seewer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
