From: Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: patch: partition vs filesystem
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:03:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171116160342.697eb21e@jasniac.instanton> (raw)
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Patch for documentation attached.
terminology: replaced partition with filesystem where needed
—Marco
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 098ff5e..d4a2a69 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -8072,7 +8072,7 @@ types.}. For the ESP, if you have one and assuming it is
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda2
@end example
-Preferably, assign partitions a label so that you can easily and
+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
@command{mkfs.ext4} and related commands. So, assuming the target root
@@ -8097,9 +8097,9 @@ cryptsetup open --type luks /dev/sda1 my-partition
mkfs.ext4 -L my-root /dev/mapper/my-partition
@end example
-Once that is done, mount the target root partition under @file{/mnt}
+Once that is done, mount the target file system under @file{/mnt}
with a command like (again, assuming @code{my-root} is the label of the
-root partition):
+root file system):
@example
mount LABEL=my-root /mnt
next reply other threads:[~2017-11-16 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-16 15:03 Marco van Hulten [this message]
2017-11-17 20:55 ` patch: partition vs filesystem Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-17 21:02 ` Marco van Hulten
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