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partitions and filesystems
From: |
Marco van Hulten |
Subject: |
partitions and filesystems |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 12:01:07 +0100 |
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
- partitions and filesystems,
Marco van Hulten <=