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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Jacob Hrbek <kreyren@rixotstudio.cz>
Cc: GNU Debbugs <control@debbugs.gnu.org>, 51804-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51804: Manual: Add verification of storage drive sanity for the installation
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:51:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rmjdufd.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p3cEELr7VXgtV1BDXYasadJb6cWKicX9uC4ej0WFKPdk7jRpuVRr6co1k7wIIh5Mt_l1tynv5TlqFjibqrr2cxywPWXZldTGCCVHmaP7g34=@rixotstudio.cz> (Jacob Hrbek's message of "Sat, 13 Nov 2021 09:00:52 +0000")

Hi Jacob,

Jacob Hrbek <kreyren@rixotstudio.cz> writes:

> My Guix installation(s) are keep failing, because people keep giving me free USB drivers that are faulty.
>
> Proposing to add some method to verify that the USB drive is sane in the manual for the installation to avoid weird, confusing and infuriating
> errors.

I honestly think this is outside the scope of the Guix reference
manual.  There is a wide range of storage devices out there, and
checking for their health is not trivial, especially for SMART-less
devices like flash thumb drives.

Closing.

Thanks,

Maxim




      reply	other threads:[~2022-09-16 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-13  9:00 bug#51804: Manual: Add verification of storage drive sanity for the installation Jacob Hrbek
2022-09-16 18:51 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]

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