From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installer: GUIX_IMAGE as /dev/sda on some hardware?
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 19:29:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7f6qygw.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o93mwr4b.fsf@gnu.org>
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Ludo'!
Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Ideally, we’d use an actual UUID object (or a string?) here
> rather than
> this Linux/udev-specific idiom. […]
> I believe using Guile-Parted we could map it back to a /dev
> name.
Yah, 's one of the reasons that I haven't sent anything yet (the
main one being shame, of course; car/cdr for the win & all that).
> Would that work?
I'd looked in Guile-parted before but came up dry. To be fair I
did little more than grep around for ‘uid’ and friends. So you
tell me ;-)
…
Hum, wait a minute. Isn't that irrelevant? Doesn't Guix itself
do exactly this when mounting file systems? Sigh, silly me, I
should be able to re-use that… >_<
Kind regards,
T G-R
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[not found] <874l5i52i1.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net>
[not found] ` <87r28mzqxv.fsf@nckx>
2019-05-25 13:16 ` Installer: GUIX_IMAGE as /dev/sda on some hardware? Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-05-26 11:22 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-05-26 11:31 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-05-26 21:26 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-05-28 15:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-28 17:29 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2019-05-29 19:49 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-05-29 20:19 ` bug#35995: " Danny Milosavljevic
2019-05-31 21:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-31 22:16 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-05-31 23:31 ` Danny Milosavljevic
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