Re: new type of drive designation

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. when a new type of disk is added then there will be a new dev name. i expect that once nvme become standard (which can't be that far off) or it is your boot disk then it will follow the sd? format.