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| author | Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]> | 2024-03-29 13:01:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]> | 2024-04-08 13:01:09 +0200 |
| commit | 73d533b2441e862f5d946883356f9a69f09d1422 (patch) | |
| tree | 42da54e95d04d9b5437c51737a67189ac5d6282d /doc/usage | |
| parent | d417260aab89d51d781b7956d79e8c3d36af2032 (diff) | |
doc: improve description of FAT partition name generation
List all prefix currently used for generating FAT partition names.
Describe which device class uses which prefix.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/usage')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/usage/partitions.rst | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/usage/partitions.rst b/doc/usage/partitions.rst index 628469bbec9..acf4573097d 100644 --- a/doc/usage/partitions.rst +++ b/doc/usage/partitions.rst @@ -44,9 +44,20 @@ partname <devtype><devletter><partnum> devtype - A device type like ``mmcsd`` or ``hd``. See the - ``part_set_generic_name`` function in ``disk/part.c`` for a - complete list. + The devtype field is set in dependence of the device class: + + ======= =============== + devtype device class + ======= =============== + hd IDE or SATA + sd SCSI + usbd USB + mmcsd eMMC or SD-card + xx others + ======= =============== + + See the ``part_set_generic_name`` function in ``disk/part.c`` + for the complete list. devletter The device number as an offset from ``a``. For example, device |