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: Drive 0 or the first drive recognized
- sdb: 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...