Rogier Wolff writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Alan Cox writes:
> > > > The problem that I see with using a letter for the device-instance field
> > > > is that after 26 we run out of letters.
> > >
> > > We already use letter pairs for this in scsi
> >
> > Could we please avoid further ugliness like this? Let's make a clean
> > break and use numbers.
>
> We already do. /dev/scd0 /dev/scd1 etc.
>
> We'll get /dev/scd0a as the first partition on that disk.
This is what is ugly. Use "p1", "p2" or "part1", "part2", rather than
those silly letters.
Regards,
Richard....
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