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I have a brand new laptop with a brand new install of Ubuntu 18.10 and I am very pleased with both the machine and the OS.

One thing, however is bothering me: Under gparted my main hard drive (an SSD actually) is labelled /dev/nvme0n1p1 (the EFI partition) and /dev/nvme0n1p2 (the Ubuntu partition) rather than /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 in all of the other releases of Ubuntu I have used before. Also a mounted SD card is shown in gparted as /dev/mmcblk0p1 rather that /dev/sdb.

Why the new, hard to remember, labels?

SteveInBavaria
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  • Refer to this thread: https://askubuntu.com/questions/932331/filesystem-shows-dev-nvme0n1p1-instead-of-dev-sda – t.v8aloyi Apr 27 '19 at 17:56
  • Your particular type of SSD requires different driver ( because it is different SSD technology ) Hence nvme naming – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Apr 27 '19 at 17:58
  • Simply put, neither /dev/nvme..., not /dev/mmc... are harddrives, so it is only logical to call them different names. – mikewhatever Apr 27 '19 at 18:31
  • @mikewhatever /dev/nvm or /dev/mmc would be almost a easy remember and type as /dev/sda and would be logical. But /dev/nvme0n1p2 and /dev/mmcblk0p? Why did they have to be three times as long? – SteveInBavaria Apr 27 '19 at 18:44

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