GNU bug report logs - #51804
Manual: Add verification of storage drive sanity for the installation

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Jacob Hrbek <kreyren <at> rixotstudio.cz>

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 09:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

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From: Jacob Hrbek <kreyren <at> rixotstudio.cz>
To: "bug-guix <at> gnu.org" <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Manual: Add verification of storage drive sanity for the installation
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 09:00:52 +0000

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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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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Jacob Hrbek <kreyren <at> rixotstudio.cz>
Cc: GNU Debbugs <control <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, 51804-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51804: Manual: Add verification of storage drive sanity for
 the installation
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:51:34 -0400

Hi Jacob,

Jacob Hrbek <kreyren <at> 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
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 15 Oct 2022 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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