Question about name of drives

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Hi all,

I have something that I find weird…

It’s been almost 2 months since I returned to using Linux (I stopped using it in 2014) and I remember when I issued the command df - h on the terminal that the drives in my system back then were named like that :

/dev/sda0
/dev/sda1
etc.

I wonder why now my drives are named like that (I mean the nvme thing) :

type or paDevice              Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1         34      32767      32734    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p2      32768 1134321663 1134288896 540.9G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p3 1134321664 1136418815    2097152     1G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p4 1136418816 1953525134  817106319 389.6G Linux filesystemste code here

Is it normal? Someone can explain to me why that is?

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It’s because your drive is now an NVME instead of whatever you had in the past (includes HDD and SATA SSDs).

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Seriously! Its only because of that… :rofl:

Thanks @naim, didn’t know.