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bug#51804: Manual: Add verification of storage drive sanity for the inst
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Maxim Cournoyer |
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bug#51804: Manual: Add verification of storage drive sanity for the installation |
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Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:51:34 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Jacob,
Jacob Hrbek <kreyren@rixotstudio.cz> writes:
> My Guix installation(s) are keep failing, because people keep giving me free
> USB drivers that are faulty.
>
> Proposing to add some method to verify that the USB drive is sane in the
> manual for the installation to avoid weird, confusing and infuriating
> errors.
I honestly think this is outside the scope of the Guix reference
manual. There is a wide range of storage devices out there, and
checking for their health is not trivial, especially for SMART-less
devices like flash thumb drives.
Closing.
Thanks,
Maxim
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