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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2020-06-03 17:22:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2020-06-03 18:05:55 +0200 |
| commit | b6c445931e85c07286a79bc9c80fdc956d58b1e2 (patch) | |
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doc: Mention Btrfs compression.
Suggested by Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>.
* doc/guix.texi (Keyboard Layout and Networking and Partitioning):
Mention Btrfs compression.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index de958c9cf1..056bf011f6 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -2279,6 +2279,12 @@ types.}. For the ESP, if you have one and assuming it is mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1 @end example +For the root file system, ext4 is the most widely used format. Other +file systems, such as Btrfs, support compression, which is reported to +nicely complement file deduplication that the daemon performs +independently of the file system (@pxref{Invoking guix-daemon, +deduplication}). + 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 |