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01/02: doc: Mention 'mkfs.fat' for the ESP.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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01/02: doc: Mention 'mkfs.fat' for the ESP. |
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Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:58:31 -0400 (EDT) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit 6ab63268e4a100340995fc16cb4afc34c0edae09
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 19 13:46:34 2017 +0200
doc: Mention 'mkfs.fat' for the ESP.
Suggested by Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden>.
* doc/guix.texi (Preparing for Installation): Mention 'mkfs.fat'.
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doc/guix.texi | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 1356a35..601cf51 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -7930,7 +7930,12 @@ Once you are done partitioning the target hard disk
drive, you have to
create a file system on the relevant partition(s)@footnote{Currently
GuixSD only supports ext4 and btrfs file systems. In particular, code
that reads partition UUIDs and labels only works for these file system
-types.}.
+types.}. For the ESP, if you have one and assuming it is
address@hidden/dev/sda2}, run:
+
address@hidden
+mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda2
address@hidden example
Preferably, assign partitions a label so that you can easily and
reliably refer to them in @code{file-system} declarations (@pxref{File