Re: What does the letter »r« stand for in /dev/sr0?

[Verde Denim]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>wrote:

> Detlef Lechner wrote:
>
> > Derek Broughton wrote:
> >> Detlef Lechner wrote:
> >>
> >>> what does the letter »r« stand for in /dev/sr0?
> >>> (/dev/scd0 is a link to /dev/sr0.)
> >>
> >> Does it have to stand for anything?
> >
> > No, it does not have to. But people wuold learn and remember the name
> > more easily; the number of errors and mistakes would be less.
>
> That would be true if people really needed to know what /dev/sr0 is, but
> for
> the most part we shouldn't need to.  Once upon a time, because of some
> little quirk with a Palm Pilot, I needed to know something about the
> /dev/sg0 device, but when things are working properly all you should need
> to
> know is /dev/pilot (I think - don't use it anymore!).  Similarly, for most
> of use, all we should need to know about the CD/DVD drive is /media/cdrom.
> I'm pretty sure I've never needed to know that /dev/scd0 links to /dev/sr0,
> let alone what sr0 is.
> --
> derek
>

Translation - I don't know either... lol


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