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Re: GPT vs BSD-label



swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost (Swift Griggs) writes:

>/dev/sda1 vs /dev/sd1a
>So, they use letters first, then numbers.

Actually that gets more and more unusuable in Linux. You need to
access disks as /dev/disk/by-XXXX/YYYYYY and partitions with something
like /dev/disk/by-XXXX/YYYYYY-part1 and you have several alternate
paths to the same disk.

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