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authorDavid Craven <david@craven.ch>2016-11-30 19:30:12 +0100
committerDavid Craven <david@craven.ch>2017-01-10 12:00:35 +0100
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system: Add btrfs file system support.
* gnu/build/file-systems.scm (%btrfs-endianness, btrfs-superblock?, read-btrfs-superblock, btrfs-superblock-uuid, btrfs-superblock-volume-name, check-btrfs-file-system): New variables. (%paritition-label-readers, %partition-uuid-readers): Add btrfs readers. * gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm (linux-modules): Add btrfs modules when a btrfs file-system is used. * gnu/tests/install.scm (%btrfs-root-os %btrfs-root-os-source, %btrfs-root-installation-script, %test-btrfs-root-os): New system test. * doc/guix.texi: Adjust accordingly. Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/19280>.
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@@ -6919,9 +6919,9 @@ cfdisk
Once you are done partitioning the target hard disk drive, you have to
create a file system on the relevant partition(s)@footnote{Currently
-GuixSD pretty much assumes an ext4 file system. In particular, code
-that reads partition UUIDs and labels only works with ext4. This will
-be fixed in the future.}.
+GuixSD only supports ext4 and btrfs file systems. In particular, code
+that reads partition UUIDs and labels only works for these file system
+types.}.
Preferably, assign partitions a label so that you can easily and
reliably refer to them in @code{file-system} declarations (@pxref{File