Users new to Kali or any Linux variations may find that the drive and partition recognition and naming in Kali are different to that of Windows devices.
A typical device in Linux can be addressed or recognized as /dev/sda
, whereas drives in Windows are usually recognized as Disk 0
and Disk 1
, and so on:
/dev
: Refers to the path of all devices and drives that can be read from or written to, recognized by Linux/sda
: Refers to SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface), SATA, and USB devices
The sd stands for SCSI Mass-Storage Driver, with the letter after representing the drive number:
sda
: Drive0
or the first drive recognizedsdb
: The second drive
While Windows recognizes partitions as primary, logical, and extended, Linux partitions are recognized as numbers, after the drive letter:
sda1
: Partition 1 on the first disk (sda
)sda2
: Partition 2 on the first disksdb1
: Partition 1 on the second disk (sdb
)sdb2
: Partition 2 on the second disk