On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:22 AM david allan finch <david.allan@finch.org> wrote:
On 08/21/21 03:18 PM, George from the tribe wrote:
One thing I noticed is that the new hard drive nomenclature, or whatever you should call it, is different from what I am used to in the past. In the past the drives would be /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.
In this one, if I plug in a USB stick, the drive letter is /dev/sda. However, the NVMe SDD that I put in it was given the designation /dev/nvme0n1, with each partition being /dev/nvme0n1p1, /dev/nvme0n1p2, etc.
/dev/sd? format is normally used in unix/linux for the default disk types.
Before this thread wanders too far in fairy land - there is no "default disk type". "sd" stays for "SCSI disk". Each block device driver enumerates supported devices and assigns devices names that are unique to this driver and all other different types of block devices.