nightmorph 08/03/31 21:50:37 Added: hb-install-blockdevices.xml Log: added hb-install-blockdevices.xml so i can delete it from /draft/
Revision Changes Path 1.1 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-blockdevices.xml file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-blockdevices.xml?rev=1.1&view=markup plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-blockdevices.xml?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain Index: hb-install-blockdevices.xml =================================================================== <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-blockdevices.xml,v 1.1 2008/03/31 21:50:37 nightmorph Exp $ --> <!DOCTYPE included SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> <included> <version>1</version> <date>2008-03-02</date> <section id="blockdevicesdesc"> <title>Block Devices</title> <body> <p> We'll take a good look at disk-oriented aspects of Gentoo Linux and Linux in general, including Linux filesystems, partitions and block devices. Then, once you're familiar with the ins and outs of disks and filesystems, you'll be guided through the process of setting up partitions and filesystems for your Gentoo Linux installation. </p> <p> To begin, we'll introduce <e>block devices</e>. The most famous block device is probably the one that represents the first IDE drive in a Linux system, namely <path>/dev/hda</path>. If your system uses SCSI drives, then your first hard drive would be <path>/dev/sda</path>. Serial ATA drives are also <path>/dev/sda</path> even if they are IDE drives. If you're using the new libata framework in the kernel, all hard drives will be labeled <path>/dev/sd*</path>. </p> <p> The block devices above represent an abstract interface to the disk. User programs can use these block devices to interact with your disk without worrying about whether your drives are IDE, SCSI or something else. The program can simply address the storage on the disk as a bunch of contiguous, randomly-accessible 512-byte blocks. </p> </body> </section> </included> -- [email protected] mailing list
