From b6c445931e85c07286a79bc9c80fdc956d58b1e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 17:22:43 +0200 Subject: doc: Mention Btrfs compression. Suggested by Pierre Neidhardt . * doc/guix.texi (Keyboard Layout and Networking and Partitioning): Mention Btrfs compression. --- doc/guix.texi | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') 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 -- cgit 1.4.1