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Answer by Tom Yan for What does /dev/sda for linux mean?

sd originates from the driver sd-mod. It literally stands for scsi disk. The reason (S)ATA disks are also listed as SCSI disks is, SCSI commands pretty much provides a superset of features that can be...

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Answer by Shadur for What does /dev/sda for linux mean?

TL;DR: It has to do with the way linux (and all unixes) name their drives, much in the way that windows uses C:, D:, etc. (NOTE: This is what we call a metaphor. In other words, a blatant lie that...

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Answer by Rory Alsop for What does /dev/sda for linux mean?

/dev is your filesystem representation of devices your system understands - providing a mechanism for applications to access data on the device without needing to know specifically what the device is....

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What does /dev/sda for linux mean?

What does : /dev/sda stand for? What does it mean? I have both Fedora and Ubuntu installed and if I explore them using Ext2explore from windows, I see these names : /dev/sda6 /dev/sda9 Please explain...

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Answer by Tom Yan for What does /dev/sda in Linux mean?

sd originates from the driver sd-mod. It literally stands for scsi disk.The reason (S)ATA disks are also listed as SCSI disks is, SCSI commands pretty much provides a superset of features that can be...

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Answer by Shadur for What does /dev/sda in Linux mean?

TL;DR: It has to do with the way Linux (and other Unixes as well) name their drives, much in the way that Windows uses C:, D:, etc. (NOTE: This is what we call a metaphor. In other words, a blatant lie...

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Answer by Rory Alsop for What does /dev/sda in Linux mean?

/dev is your filesystem representation of devices your system understands - providing a mechanism for applications to access data on the device without needing to know specifically what the device...

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What does /dev/sda in Linux mean?

What does/dev/sdastand for? What does it mean?I have both Fedora and Ubuntu installed and if I explore them using Ext2explore from Windows, I see these names:/dev/sda6/dev/sda9Please explain to me what...

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