doc: Recommend partition labels.

* doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Recommend partition labels.
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@ -2795,6 +2795,11 @@ image does not contain all the software and tools that may be needed.
Unless this has already been done, you must partition and format the
target partitions.
Preferably, assign partitions a label so that you can easily and
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.
The installation image includes Parted (@pxref{Overview,,, parted, GNU
Parted User Manual}), @command{fdisk}, and e2fsprogs, the suite of tools
to manipulate ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems.