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ebignumber

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Registered: 2025-10-12

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Partition layout different from what the wiki says

I was looking at the wiki for the arch-chroot command, and it said that the partition layout of my drive may be /dev/sdaXY or /dev/nvme0nXpY, depending on the drive. But for me, /dev/sdaXY is for the usb drive I installed arch linux with, and the name of my drive was actually mmcblk.

I was wondering if there was any specific reason for this?

Last edited by ebignumber (2025-10-12 20:24:08)

frostschutz

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Registered: 2013-11-15

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Re: Partition layout different from what the wiki says

mmcblk is usually a built in flash memory chip (like eMMC) or internal sd card reader

that's fine too, just less common

Last edited by frostschutz (2025-10-12 20:26:34)

ebignumber

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Re: Partition layout different from what the wiki says

Thanks for your reply