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doc: Mention Btrfs compression.

Suggested by Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>.

* doc/guix.texi (Keyboard Layout and Networking and Partitioning):
Mention Btrfs compression.
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@ -2279,6 +2279,12 @@ types.}. For the ESP, if you have one and assuming it is
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
@end example
For the root file system, ext4 is the most widely used format. Other
file systems, such as Btrfs, support compression, which is reported to
nicely complement file deduplication that the daemon performs
independently of the file system (@pxref{Invoking guix-daemon,
deduplication}).
Preferably, assign file systems a label so that you can easily and
reliably refer to them in @code{file-system} declarations (@pxref{File
Systems}). This is typically done using the @code{-L} option of