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bug#51804: Manual: Add verification of storage drive sanity for the inst


From: Maxim Cournoyer
Subject: bug#51804: Manual: Add verification of storage drive sanity for the installation
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:51:34 -0400
User-agent: 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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