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| author | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2015-12-19 21:38:55 -0500 |
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| committer | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2015-12-21 12:53:12 -0500 |
| commit | dd81635571caf202895371a06b95334b612707fe (patch) | |
| tree | fd20ec798c79c6d269bde84678cbffc140ab5959 | |
| parent | f0150f8724f09fa650a0cbb66d3ef5a8a99804c4 (diff) | |
| download | guix-dd81635571caf202895371a06b95334b612707fe.tar.gz | |
doc: Explain significance of partition labels.
* doc/guix.texi (Preparing for Installation): Point out relationship between partition labels and the file-system configuration.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index e12bc9f7a6..a70fbe86ed 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2013 Nikita Karetnikov@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Mathieu Lirzin@* Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer +Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Leo Famulari Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or @@ -5456,6 +5457,13 @@ 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. +Be sure that your partition labels match the value of their respective +@code{device} fields in your @code{file-system} configuration, if your +@code{file-system} configuration sets the value of @code{title} to +@code{'label}, as do the example configurations found on the USB +installation image under @file{/etc/configuration} (@pxref{Using the +Configuration System}). + @c FIXME: Uncomment this once GRUB fully supports encrypted roots. @c A typical command sequence may be: @c |