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[–] 48 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Don't forget /dev/mmcblk0p1 and /dev/nvme0n1p4how4fucking7long1must6these5get

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  • [–] 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

    You can blame them on systemd.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    To be fair I blame everything on system d

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    What happened to systems a-b-c.. ?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago

    Simply lovely. There long names are for mounting since they are persistent w ross reboots.

    The short ones can change of there are no mounting options or more or fewer devices than before.

    PS: even the networking devices have this funky naming

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    I get nvme# as the drive number and p# as the partition number, but I never got what n# meant.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    NVMe drives can be partitioned by the hardware.

    There could be multiple drives on a drive and n# is the hardware partition.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    Namespace isn't it? Are there any reasonable use cases for it

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago

    That’s the name of it. 🙂 I was letting a dog outside and couldn’t remember the technical name.

    Under-provisioning the drive is the most common usage I’ve seen.

    Maybe passing it directly to a VM, but I haven’t tried that.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    Well, for example, you need multiple partitions on a system drive. Such as swap, boot and the main partition for the OS

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    The namespaces are generally not used for that, since partition table does the job.

    Nvme bakes in a lot of "just in case" functions that fancy storage engineers imagine a use case for that are in practice superfluous.

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