From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: [PATCH 1/1] doc: Explain significance of partition labels. Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:00:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45139) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAUF1-00056W-HK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:01:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAUEz-0004AB-E0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:00:59 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:32977) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAUEz-00049j-AV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:00:57 -0500 Received: from jasmine.lan (c-69-249-5-231.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [69.249.5.231]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 474F6C016F0 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:00:54 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: References: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org * doc/guix.texi (Preparing for Installation): Point out relationship between partition labels and the file-system configuration. --- doc/guix.texi | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 06d70ba..53a5fd3 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -5456,6 +5456,13 @@ 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 +"label", as do the example configurations found on the USB installation +image under @code{/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 -- 2.6.2