= The User Partition
:SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
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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.