the meaning of dev/hdg9

Frank-F · 03-07-2014, 05:05 PM

I've looked all through Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition book, looked all on line for what the letters mean in /dev/hdg9 I'm pretty sure its device/hard disk ? and the 9th partion

what in chap 2

bigrigdriver · 03-07-2014, 05:22 PM

Look at file /etc/fstab. Do you see /dev/hdg9 listed?

Frank-F · 03-07-2014, 05:54 PM

Are you talking about in the book

michaelk · 03-07-2014, 06:21 PM

I can not find any reference in chapter 2 but yes /dev/hdg9 would be a hard drive. /dev/hdg would reference the master drive on the 4th IDE(PATA) controller and 9 is the 9th partition. Anything >4 is a logical partition for the MBR (legacy) BIOS. Now days all drives use the SCSI subsystem and are referenced as /dev/sd(x)(y)

Frank-F · 03-07-2014, 06:49 PM

Thank you for all that but what does the g stand for games?

michaelk · 03-07-2014, 06:54 PM

Can you post the section of the Rute guide where you see /dev/hdg9?

IDE drives were assigned letters based on controller and master or slave.
hda - 1st controller master
hdb - 1st controller slave
hdc - 2nd controller master
and so on.

Frank-F · 03-07-2014, 06:58 PM

Its not in the book, I'm trying to find it somewhere I've been looking for a week. plus I have to learn how to navigate on here.