Media vs /dev/sd1?

[C M Reinehr]

On Thu 12 November 2009 06:48:32 pm Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 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.

Likewise, on my Debian Lenny system, media is a root directory (/media) 
wherein all removeable media is mounted automagically by HAL, UDEV or 
whatever. For example, I just inserted a USB memory stick which, in turn, was 
mounted as /media/sdh1.

Cheers,

cmr

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