Media vs /dev/sd1?

jorg raskowski jr at tailorware.org.uk
Thu Nov 12 02:22:05 PST 2009


hi Bob,

Robert Hemus wrote:
 > Gents & Susan if she's reading this,
 > How do you correlate Media to /dev/hda or sda ?  I've run an fdisk to
 > see what the size of the partitions are, but this changes from Media to
 > the size of the fdisk command gives.  Then at the bottom of
 > fdisk /dev/sdc there is a line "Partition table entries are not in disk
 > order".  Where can I read about "Media" as opposed to /dev/?

-- what exactly are you trying to achieve?
-- which OS is being used?

NB. take care when using 'fdisk', potentially dangerous command.

regards, jr.




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