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no /dev/sda
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no /dev/sda

my Debian VPS doesnt have /dev/sda.
Why is that?

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  • it will have /dev/vda if it's KVM with Virtio

  • If your VPS is a OpenVZ VPS you have no real disk nor real partitions.

    Thanked by 1cikatomo
  • There are no real rules as to what partition may contain your root filesystem on Linux. If it's a full virtualization platform, give it a cat /proc/mounts to get an idea of how it is set up.

  • Hi,
    You can also run lsblk provided in util-linux-ng package

    Sample output.

    NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT xvda 202:0 0 8G 0 disk ├─xvda1 202:1 0 500M 0 part /boot └─xvda2 202:2 0 7.5G 0 part ├─vg_speedtestla-lv_root (dm-0) 253:0 0 6.7G 0 lvm / └─vg_speedtestla-lv_swap (dm-1) 253:1 0 816M 0 lvm [SWAP]

    Thanked by 1cikatomo
  • @Hidden_Refuge said:
    If your VPS is a OpenVZ VPS you have no real disk nor real partitions.

    yes it is. I have used VMware before and didn't know this stuff

  • Well, OpenVZ VPS are just containers on the hostnode. So no real virtual disk nor any partition.

    VMWare is hardware virtualization and has depending on the added disk mostly sda.

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