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authorLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2015-12-19 21:38:55 -0500
committerLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2015-12-21 12:53:12 -0500
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doc: Explain significance of partition labels.
* doc/guix.texi (Preparing for Installation): Point out relationship between partition labels and the file-system configuration.
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@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2013 Nikita Karetnikov@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Mathieu Lirzin@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
+Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Leo Famulari
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -5456,6 +5457,13 @@ reliably refer to them in @code{file-system} declarations (@pxref{File
Systems}). This is typically done using the @code{-L} option of
@command{mkfs.ext4} and related commands.
+Be sure that your partition labels match the value of their respective
+@code{device} fields in your @code{file-system} configuration, if your
+@code{file-system} configuration sets the value of @code{title} to
+@code{'label}, as do the example configurations found on the USB
+installation image under @file{/etc/configuration} (@pxref{Using the
+Configuration System}).
+
@c FIXME: Uncomment this once GRUB fully supports encrypted roots.
@c A typical command sequence may be:
@c