Have the device names for hard discs been changed?

[Patrick Bowen]

Christian Baer wrote:

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>[2] Is there some text out there explaining these last letters? What are
>    the first three letters (a-c) reserved for? The handbook seems to be
>    a little out of date.
>[...]
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The handbook says that partition "a" is the root partition and "b" is 
the swap, by convention. As for "c", I don't know. Maybe it was left out 
on purpose so it wouldn't be confused for a "c" drive, as in "c:\" from 
DOS. Someboy will know...

Cheers,
Patrick