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doc: Fix section on LUKS support.

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Only LUKS1 is supported in Guix at the time of this commit. Contrarily to what
reported in previous versions of this section, LUKS2 is not supported.

* doc/guix.texi (Keyboard Layout, Networking, and Partitioning)[Disk
Partitioning]: Fix section on LUKS support.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
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@ -2728,20 +2728,20 @@ the Cryptsetup/LUKS utilities to do that (see @inlinefmtifelse{html,
@code{man cryptsetup}} for more information). @code{man cryptsetup}} for more information).
@quotation Warning @quotation Warning
Note that GRUB can unlock LUKS2 devices since version 2.06, but only While efforts are in progress to extend support to LUKS2, please note
supports the PBKDF2 key derivation function, which is not the default that Guix only supports devices of type LUKS1 at the moment. You can
for @command{cryptsetup luksFormat}. You can check which key derivation verify that your existing LUKS device is of the right type by running
function is being used by a device by running @command{cryptsetup @command{cryptsetup luksDump @var{device}}. Alternatively, you can
luksDump @var{device}}, and looking for the PBKDF field of your create a new LUKS1 device with @command{cryptsetup luksFormat --type
keyslots. luks1 @var{device}}.
@end quotation @end quotation
Assuming you want to store the root partition on @file{/dev/sda2}, the Assuming you want to store the root partition on @file{/dev/sda2}, the
command sequence to format it as a LUKS2 partition would be along these command sequence to format it as a LUKS1 partition would be along these
lines: lines:
@example @example
cryptsetup luksFormat --type luks2 --pbkdf pbkdf2 /dev/sda2 cryptsetup luksFormat --type luks1 /dev/sda2
cryptsetup open /dev/sda2 my-partition cryptsetup open /dev/sda2 my-partition
mkfs.ext4 -L my-root /dev/mapper/my-partition mkfs.ext4 -L my-root /dev/mapper/my-partition
@end example @end example