Question about name of drives

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?

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.