From 7ab44369b34a23e5d22ac51b7fbfe31c0de9fbfd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:47:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Recommend partition labels.

* doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Recommend partition labels.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 6266f70194e..2f44ce95067 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -2795,6 +2795,11 @@ image does not contain all the software and tools that may be needed.
 Unless this has already been done, you must partition and format the
 target partitions.
 
+Preferably, assign partitions 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
+@command{mkfs.ext4} and related commands.
+
 The installation image includes Parted (@pxref{Overview,,, parted, GNU
 Parted User Manual}), @command{fdisk}, and e2fsprogs, the suite of tools
 to manipulate ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems.
-- 
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