From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:43:44 -0400, Paul wrote:   
      
   > On Linux, the letter on the end is the drive identifier   
   >   
   >     Windows Disk0      Linux /dev/sda   
   >     Windows Disk1      Linux /dev/sdb   
   >     Windows Disk2      Linux /dev/sdc   
      
   Note also that on *nix systems, the device name is not used to access the   
   files on the volume. Instead, you mount the volume in an empty directory   
   called the “mount point”, and the contents of that volume become visible   
   in that directory. This allows you to have more meaningful names for your   
   different volumes while they are online.   
      
   This contrasts with DOS/Windows, where “drive letters” like A, B, C etc   
   are used both to refer to the device and to the mounted volume. This kind   
   of scheme does not scale.   
      
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