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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 |