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commit b6c445931e85c07286a79bc9c80fdc956d58b1e2
Author: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Wed Jun 3 17:22:43 2020 +0200
doc: Mention Btrfs compression.
Suggested by Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz>.
* doc/guix.texi (Keyboard Layout and Networking and Partitioning):
Mention Btrfs compression.
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doc/guix.texi | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index de958c9..056bf01 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -2279,6 +2279,12 @@ types.}. For the ESP, if you have one and assuming it is
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
@end example
+For the root file system, ext4 is the most widely used format. Other
+file systems, such as Btrfs, support compression, which is reported to
+nicely complement file deduplication that the daemon performs
+independently of the file system (@pxref{Invoking guix-daemon,
+deduplication}).
+
Preferably, assign file systems 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
