How is the partitions nomenclature in linux?
In linux system all devices are organized in directories under the /, the hard disks and there paritions are in the /dev directory, to access a parition in linux, we should mount the parition in a directory this is called the partition mount point, for example D dirve is mounted under /mnt/windows read faq 13. Linux use small alphabets a,b,c,d for the devices attached to the data cables, starting from the primary master like this: primary master is /dev/hda or /dev/sda primary slave is /dev/hdb or /dev/sdb secondary master is /dev/hdc or /dev/sdc secondary slave is /dev/hdd or /dev/sdd The hard disk attached to any point well get that same name like /dev/hda. Partitions names are numbers starting form 1, the first 4 numbers 1,2,3,4 are for the primary partitions even if they didn’t exist, /dev/hda4 is for the extended partition and the logical partitions start from 5,6 and so on, for example if there is just one primary partition C, this is /dev/hda1, the 2 more numbers will be escaped
