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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-07-24 19:47:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-07-24 23:02:26 +0200 |
| commit | 7ab44369b34a23e5d22ac51b7fbfe31c0de9fbfd (patch) | |
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doc: Recommend partition labels.
* doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Recommend partition labels.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 6266f70194..2f44ce9506 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -2795,6 +2795,11 @@ image does not contain all the software and tools that may be needed. Unless this has already been done, you must partition and format the target partitions. +Preferably, assign partitions 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. + The installation image includes Parted (@pxref{Overview,,, parted, GNU Parted User Manual}), @command{fdisk}, and e2fsprogs, the suite of tools to manipulate ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems. |