Re: Help: why /tmp/hda?

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From: Graham Daveney
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:00

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J. Zhou (jzhou@neumann.une.edu.au) wrote:
: Disk /tmp/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders
: Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
: 
: Device Boot  Begin   Start   End  Blocks   Id   Systems
: /tmp/hda1      1       1      21   84640+  83   Linux native
: 
: It seems to me that the win95 partition is deleted. My problem is 
: now as per above that my disk is /tmp/hda rather than what I think
                                   ^^^^^^^^
 I assume that you really meant    /tmp/hda1

: should be /dev/hda.
: 
: Could anybody there can point me what is wron?
: 
: Thanks so much.
: 
: Jun Zhou.
: 
: 

hda is how the entire disk is referred to, any partitions that you make on it
will be hda1, hda2, hda3 etc.


Regards
Graham
graham@daveney.matra.com.au

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Subject: Re: Help: why /tmp/hda?
Date: 1997/06/12
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