From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco van Hulten Subject: partitions and filesystems Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2017 12:01:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20171104120107.002ca8de@graviton.instanton> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39009) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAwCR-00043u-7d for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2017 07:01:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAwCO-00036V-6m for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2017 07:01:15 -0400 Received: from eterpe-smout.broadpark.no ([80.202.8.16]:53946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAwCN-00035G-V6 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2017 07:01:12 -0400 Received: from bgo1cloudm2.nextgentel.net ([80.202.8.59]) by eterpe-smout.broadpark.no (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) with ESMTP id <0OYW00JVH3P4IJ20@eterpe-smout.broadpark.no> for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2017 12:01:09 +0100 (CET) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org Hello, Something is not so clear to me on this page: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Preparing-for-Installation.html under section "6.1.4.3 Disk Partitioning": > Preferably, assign partitions a label so that you can easily and > reliably refer to them in file-system declarations (see File > Systems). This is typically done using the -L option of mkfs.ext4 and > related commands. So, assuming the target root partition lives > at /dev/sda1, a file system with the label my-root can be created > with: mkfs.ext4 [...] and > mount the target root partition under /mnt with a command like > (again, assuming my-root is the label of the root partition) Wait, "my-root" was the label of the filesystem, right? I think the terms "partition" and "filesystem" are confused here. I propose that this be correct and consistent, so - a partition has a "partition label"; - a filesystem has a "filesystem label", or "volume label" when following mkfs(8) terminology. Could someone make this consistent? Or I could propose an updated text. Should I send them in plain text to guix-devel? -Marco