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dd81635571caf202895371a06b95334b612707fe — Leo Famulari 10 years ago f0150f8
doc: Explain significance of partition labels.

* doc/guix.texi (Preparing for Installation): Point out relationship
between partition labels and the file-system configuration.
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

M doc/guix.texi
M doc/guix.texi => doc/guix.texi +8 -0
@@ 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