Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

[Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 13 September 2011 22:46:04 Greg Freemyer wrote:

> Unfortunately libata is still under the scsi stack, so it gets the
> /dev/sdx style names.

Why then the CD/DVD has different name if it uses the same stack?
 
> > It is impossible to determine whether a given drive an USB drive or hard 
> > based on mtab only if the both use
> > similar sd*  name.
>
> The name is not a API.  You should be looking at /sys/block/sda.  That
> directory is full of useful things.
>
> For instance /sys/block/sda/removable should contain a zero or one
> depending on the nature of the storage.

Thanks! This is very useful!
 

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