Media vs /dev/sd1?

[Tony Alfrey]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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 ? Â 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. Â Then at the bottom of
>>>>>> fdisk /dev/sdc there is a line "Partition table entries are not in
>>>>>> disk
>>>>>> order". Â 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. Â 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.hda1

On my SuSE 9.3 partition, /media is a mount point for an IDE disk (i.e. 
/media/hda1) a dvd burner, a CD ROM drive, and a floppy.  Why SuSE does 
it this way I don't know.  It's not the name for the device itself, for 
example /dev/hda1.



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