Media vs /dev/sd1?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Leon Goldstein <metapsych at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>
>> 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' ?
>>
>>
>>
>
> I believe "Media" is a mount point for USB and similar devices that HAL
> automatically detects and opens.

Not in general, its not.  This has to be something that is distro
specific.  Also, Bob's not talking about USB media, he's talking about
fixed disks.



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