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 2 on the first disk
• sdb1: Partition 1 on the second disk (sdb)
• sdb2: Partition 2 on the second disk