It is in fact /dev/hda5 ;-))))) And it is the same with everything in Linux ;-) (but if you have two phsyical drives, not two partitons, it can be /dev/hdb1... or anything else, it depends on your actual partition table) There actualy IS some logic in it: - only system admins have to understand partition tables; users won't know which partition is in use, there will be one big tree ready for them - hda, hdb, hdc and hdd stands for four IDE channels, so your ATAPI-IDE CD-ROM is likely to be hdb or hdd. PCMCIA is usually at hde. - hda1 is primary partiton, and there can be four primary partitions - hda1 through hda4. hda5 is first extended partition, so usually D: if you have single physical hard disk. - DOS renames disks (D: to E:, for example), if you insert second IDE physical hard disk to your PC. I hate that; so I found Linux partition names quite useful - they don't change, why logic of DOS disk names change all the time... On my home Linux, I have directories /c, /d, /e and /f where my DOS drives are mounted. But today , I would never do this again: mounting "foreign" filesystem to /mnt really makes more sense. I am starting to like "Unix traditions", like /usr and /home on different partitions: It is so easy to upgrade system, if all binaries are in /usr and all data on /home! Users won't notice anything, and we even reformated /usr partition because it was corrupted after some hard power-down (we don't have backup power in Labs..)... -- http://arachne.cz/ (Arachne WWW browser for DOS+Linux / Webhosting / MP3streaming)
