Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > >> Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> skribis: >> >>> I believe, that we could make a powerful extension to guixsd if we could do >>> an installation from an installation description. >>> >>> I think this installation description should look like the operating-system >>> description we >>> already have. >> >> In what way would it defer? :-) >> >> ‘operating-system’ *is* an “installation description.” > > I guess it would differ from what we have currently in that it would > also specify partitioning information, which is not handled by > “operating-system”. > > Does it make sense to extend “operating-system” such that disk > partitioning information could be included and (*holds breath*) acted > upon automatically?
I suppose only ‘guix system init’ could actually use that information. Perhaps we could have a separate partitioning description, and users could optionally run: guix system init --partitioning=part.scm config.scm ? Is it really an improvement over writing a Parted script, which is something people can already do? > Acting on partitioning info is a little scary because it can easily lead > to data loss upon reconfiguration. Small bugs could lead to very big > problems, so maybe this should not be default behaviour. It’s definitely scary. Ludo’.
