From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: [v2 1/2] doc: Explain significance of partition labels. Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 23:30:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35963) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAs7N-0004WC-T0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2015 23:30:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAs7J-0005iD-8V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2015 23:30:41 -0500 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:38813) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAs7J-0005i9-2N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2015 23:30:37 -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 4B8F2C016F3 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 2015 23:30:36 -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 | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 06d70ba..152a713 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2013 Nikita Karetnikov@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Mathieu Lirzin@* Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer +Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Leo Famulari Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or @@ -5456,6 +5457,13 @@ 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 +@code{'label}, as do the example configurations found on the USB +installation image under @file{/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