Hi
I am looking at installing Ubuntu onto my PC at home and had a quick question that I couldn't really find an answer to on Google.
When a hard drive or partition is mounted in Linux, what reasoning is behind the labels such as hda and hda1? Is there such thing as hdb? (I think I saw it once when I mounted a USB stick using a Knoppix CD). Can you have the number increase, e.g. hda1, hda2, hda3?
When is sda used?
A simple explanation for a simple person would be great. Thanks.
I am looking at installing Ubuntu onto my PC at home and had a quick question that I couldn't really find an answer to on Google.
When a hard drive or partition is mounted in Linux, what reasoning is behind the labels such as hda and hda1? Is there such thing as hdb? (I think I saw it once when I mounted a USB stick using a Knoppix CD). Can you have the number increase, e.g. hda1, hda2, hda3?
When is sda used?
A simple explanation for a simple person would be great. Thanks.