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author | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2018-06-26 11:59:51 +0200 |
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committer | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2018-06-26 17:27:40 +0200 |
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doc: Use a consistent partitioning scheme.
* doc/guix.texi (Preparing for Installation): Consistently refer to the ESP as
/dev/sda1; root file system as /dev/sda2; and swap as /dev/sda3.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index da05a200a1..d3375601aa 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -8641,21 +8641,21 @@ create a file system on the relevant partition(s)@footnote{Currently GuixSD only supports ext4 and btrfs file systems. In particular, code that reads file system UUIDs and labels only works for these file system types.}. For the ESP, if you have one and assuming it is -@file{/dev/sda2}, run: +@file{/dev/sda1}, run: @example -mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda2 +mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1 @end example Preferably, assign file systems a label so that you can easily and 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. So, assuming the target root -partition lives at @file{/dev/sda1}, a file system with the label +partition lives at @file{/dev/sda2}, a file system with the label @code{my-root} can be created with: @example -mkfs.ext4 -L my-root /dev/sda1 +mkfs.ext4 -L my-root /dev/sda2 @end example @cindex encrypted disk @@ -8663,12 +8663,12 @@ If you are instead planning to encrypt the root partition, you can use the Cryptsetup/LUKS utilities to do that (see @inlinefmtifelse{html, @uref{https://linux.die.net/man/8/cryptsetup, @code{man cryptsetup}}, @code{man cryptsetup}} for more information.) Assuming you want to -store the root partition on @file{/dev/sda1}, the command sequence would +store the root partition on @file{/dev/sda2}, the command sequence would be along these lines: @example -cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda1 -cryptsetup open --type luks /dev/sda1 my-partition +cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda2 +cryptsetup open --type luks /dev/sda2 my-partition mkfs.ext4 -L my-root /dev/mapper/my-partition @end example @@ -8688,11 +8688,11 @@ by @code{guix system init} afterwards. Finally, if you plan to use one or more swap partitions (@pxref{Memory Concepts, swap space,, libc, The GNU C Library Reference Manual}), make sure to initialize them with @command{mkswap}. Assuming you have one -swap partition on @file{/dev/sda2}, you would run: +swap partition on @file{/dev/sda3}, you would run: @example -mkswap /dev/sda2 -swapon /dev/sda2 +mkswap /dev/sda3 +swapon /dev/sda3 @end example Alternatively, you may use a swap file. For example, assuming that in |