bug#51804: closed (Manual: Add verification of storage drive sanity for the installation)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Manual: Add verification of storage drive sanity for the installation Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 09:00:52 +0000

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.

-- Jacob "Kreyren" Hrbek

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> Hi Jacob,
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> Jacob Hrbek <kreyren@rixotstudio.cz> writes:
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> > My Guix installation(s) are keep failing, because people keep giving me free 
> > USB drivers that are faulty.
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> > 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
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> 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
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> Closing.
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> Maxim
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