[wplug] Disk Partition Help

[Sean McCune]

On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 12:16, Jonathan S. Billings wrote:
> 
> 
> This isn't entirely accurate.  /dev/hda is the Primary Master IDE disk.  
> /dev/hdb is the Primary Slave.  /dev/hdc is the Secondary Master.  
> /dev/hdd is the Secondary Slave.  You can get more disks on some 
> systems, where you'll have /dev/hde and /dev/hdf (master and slave) and 
> beyond.  The naming isn't based on the number of disks, for example you 
> could have your disk on the Primary master, and your CD ROM on your 
> additional IDE bus' Primary Master, and they'd be /dev/hda and /dev/hde 
> respectively.
> 

Yeah, I wasn't going into that level of detail.  Especially since it
sounded like he had one physical disk with a bunch of partitions.