Hello Efraim, On 2020-05-14 08:25, Efraim Flashner wrote: > $ guix gc --references > /gnu/store/g6pv8jfhi3m6a2wnvlwjcx4i3hjihnra-libblockdev-2.23 | grep xfs > > it doesn't look like it actually links in xfs support. I see from the > configure output that the FS plugin is built and installed in %out/lib. > Does it work on xfs formatted partitions without linking to xfsprogs? Listing all the references, 'btrfs-progs', 'dosfstools' and 'mdam' are also not linked but are present as inputs. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- /gnu/store/01b4w3m6mp55y531kyi1g8shh722kwqm-gcc-7.5.0-lib /gnu/store/33y7wsvfh3i6mq9h7812pwagj8p2lrfd-libyaml-0.2.4 /gnu/store/35afkywncrr5xsb4cxcljf6rpjcb7f61-gmp-6.2.0 /gnu/store/5jf395qa3v4amdi60850rz2a15zlsrza-mpfr-4.0.2 /gnu/store/5ydgg6rd9vqw0hf4a7ji65y4yw3ja665-lvm2-2.03.09 /gnu/store/7ykddq56ssyqm1win3jlxm3ran94kq3q-libbytesize-2.2 /gnu/store/9g1nq7qf5mkhbyjcyc0d7g9j02x3sdl2-argon2-20190702 /gnu/store/9rk1sdzb9lqsi38knfi2pq5gqxfxi8d0-libgpg-error-1.37 /gnu/store/9rvf68qxkq14sxajdp4gf8qqa026bjj2-kmod-26 /gnu/store/a45p39mgqvfd8kjwibyr0q42k1mw7gmf-util-linux-2.35.1-lib /gnu/store/bjp2vcbdsmckv2b4f69bci1z9n0i43b6-eudev-3.2.9 /gnu/store/cbrx0nl7qwrz1j3r19ylahrgilyr1n83-json-c-0.13.1 /gnu/store/dh5klm7h2nh930lj3kgiaqkqd8vpvjaa-parted-3.3 /gnu/store/dp0q63a7ykqwsfwn1c1wx81ak51l0vp3-ndctl-68 /gnu/store/fa6wj5bxkj5ll1d7292a70knmyl7a0cr-glibc-2.31 /gnu/store/g6pv8jfhi3m6a2wnvlwjcx4i3hjihnra-libblockdev-2.23 /gnu/store/gfpgqvwrixhf3sf1bnzsfxzvld0nd8b7-nss-3.50 /gnu/store/j9agmxk8iyjba4wvvam056s4n3phlg6h-gpgme-1.13.1 /gnu/store/n2r0q34y5bjj3vd65p6nb64dghbgka01-volume-key-0.3.12 /gnu/store/p2hkmh8rfw9qaspxlf0yd4qp1hzj0bc8-cryptsetup-2.2.2 /gnu/store/q7hba8fqpix98qwcpf64izsf4wqhv1ij-libassuan-2.5.3 /gnu/store/qc3k3kd458pgrqsc7ih641160q81npwq-libgcrypt-1.8.5 /gnu/store/qvahafxrr2mcl4anjxdkkprrvd4k0xjj-pcre2-10.34 /gnu/store/r7k859hmcnkazf492fasqvk25jflnfk6-xz-5.2.4 /gnu/store/rmbxm1fg47b347kv1h5fb2w04nxqbsj6-glib-2.62.6 /gnu/store/rykm237xkmq7rl1p0nwass01p090p88x-zlib-1.2.11 /gnu/store/sdh81ijcxqlkns1c48lsdripfj34fmwq-dmraid-1.0.0.rc16-3 /gnu/store/vqajm09by8dxxfl1fd7n45blfhzyg1gm-nspr-4.25 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- libblockdev seems to use the commands provided by those packages[0]. They, including 'xfs', should be in the propagated-inputs field, right? [0]: https://github.com/storaged-project/libblockdev/blob/master/src/plugins/fs/xfs.c#L45-L51 - Brice