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doc: Clarify the form of UUIDs we expect. 

Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/22797>.
Reported by Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>.

* doc/guix.texi (File Systems): Clarify which UUIDs we're talking
about.
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Ludovic Courtès 2016-02-25 19:29:21 +01:00
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@ -6302,7 +6302,12 @@ is interpreted as a partition label name; when it is @code{uuid},
@code{device} is interpreted as a partition unique identifier (UUID).
UUIDs may be converted from their string representation (as shown by the
@command{tune2fs -l} command) using the @code{uuid} form, like this:
@command{tune2fs -l} command) using the @code{uuid} form@footnote{The
@code{uuid} form expects 16-byte UUIDs as defined in
@uref{https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122, RFC@tie{}4122}. This is the
form of UUID used by the ext2 family of file systems and others, but it
is different from ``UUIDs'' found in FAT file systems, for instance.},
like this:
@example
(file-system