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diff --git a/Documentation/development/user-partition.adoc b/Documentation/development/user-partition.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d8fd956 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/development/user-partition.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ += User Partition +:page-parent: Development +:page-nav_order: 5 + +// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-or-later OR CC-BY-SA-4.0 + +The Spectrum host system is immutable, so configuration and user data +lives on a separate partition. + +The host system discovers the user +partition by looking for the special partition type +`9293e1ff-cee4-4658-88be-898ec863944f`. + +This behavior can be overridden with the `ext` parameter on the host's kernel +command line, which works in a similar way to the standard Linux `root` +parameter. |