Media vs /dev/sd1?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Robert Hemus <ol.bob at charter.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 10:22 +0000, jorg raskowski wrote:
>> 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.
> I want to install another distro, Fedora 11, on one of my unused
> partitions.  Yes, I know about fdisk, just the Media as opposed to /dev.
> Thanks

I have no idea what 'Media' is, other than possibly some silly
abstraction that your distro is foisting upon you to cause confusion.
Which distro are you running, and where are you seeing 'Media' ?


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