the meaning of dev/hdg9
 

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

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

Are you talking about in the book

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)

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

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.

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.