Media vs /dev/sd1?

[Leon Goldstein]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Robert Hemus <ol.bob at charter.net> wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 10:22 +0000, jorg raskowski wrote:
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>>>hi Bob,
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>>>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/?
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>>>-- what exactly are you trying to achieve?
>>>-- which OS is being used?
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>>>NB. take care when using 'fdisk', potentially dangerous command.
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>>>regards, jr.
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>>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
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>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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I believe "Media" is a mount point for USB and similar devices that HAL 
automatically detects and opens.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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