From 7ab44369b34a23e5d22ac51b7fbfe31c0de9fbfd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:47:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Recommend partition labels. * doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Recommend partition labels. --- doc/guix.texi | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 6266f70194..2f44ce9506 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -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.