/dev/disk/scsi0.ch0.id1.lun0.part0
?
Doesn't the h0c0t0l0p0 type of name date from the days of unix
short filenames?
/dev/disk/ide0.ch0.lun0.part0 #ide drive, possibly removable
/dev/cdrom/ide1.ch1.lun0.sess0 # could be multi-session cd
(Need the man page for these to explain prim/sec master/slave mapping
to ide[0|1].ch[0|1].)
The only people who are going to look at these much are system
maintainers, who don't care how long the name is as long as it
doesn't take any time to find it in the box if they have to change
something. This is a minimal guesswork, no man page necessary naming
scheme.
Ordinary users will use some intelligible symlink to it, like
/dev/disk/sda1
or
/dev/cdrom/rh4.2
and so on.
Just a suggestion. It may seem like an obscene waste of name length
until you send some rookie administrator to fix something, suddenly
it's a labor-cost efficiency. I'm all for recognizing what something
denotes at a glance.
Regards, Clayton Weaver cgweav@eskimo.com (Seattle)