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From: Evan Rowley <rowley.evan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Help with a basic GuixSD installation
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:04:26 -0400
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Thanks Daniel and Ludovic for the helpful information. I will try to
install again over the coming days and report my progress.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Claes Wallin (=E9=9F=8B=E5=98=89=E8=AA=A0)
<clacke+gmail@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> On 30-Jun-2015 3:08 pm, "Ludovic Court=C3=A8s" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Evan Rowley <rowley.evan@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>> >   (file-systems (cons (file-system
>> >                         (device
>> > "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3")
>> >                         (title "root")
>> >                         (mount-point "/")
>> >                         (type "ext4"))
>> >                       %base-file-systems))
>>
>> You should be using something like:
>>
>>   (file-system
>>     (title 'label)
>>     (device "ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3")
>>     (mount-point "/")
>>     (type "ext4"))
>>
>> It literally means: Mount the block device whose label (in the ext[234]
>> sense) is =E2=80=9Cata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3=E2=80=
=9D.
>>
>> The root file system is mounted from the initrd, when udev is not
>> running; thus /dev/disk/by-id is not available yet, and it=E2=80=99s imp=
ortant
>> to use this 'label mechanism instead.
>
> So *that's* what the mysterious (title 'label) means!
>
> --
>    /c



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