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From: Javier Sedano <jsedano@dit.upm.es>
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Kees J Bot wrote:
> 
> At first I wanted to answer this with a list of technical reasons for

	I'd like to read those reasons, if you could please post them.

> 
> What makes "/dev/hd17c" more pro-human than "/dev/c0d3p1s2"?  The first
> may look less complex, but can you quickly tell what bit of the disk
> is addressed?

	I bet for the 563412th bit. ;-)

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