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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-09-19 13:46:34 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-09-19 23:58:24 +0200
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doc: Mention 'mkfs.fat' for the ESP.
Suggested by Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>. * doc/guix.texi (Preparing for Installation): Mention 'mkfs.fat'.
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@@ -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
+@file{/dev/sda2}, run:
+
+@example
+mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda2
+@end example
Preferably, assign partitions a label so that you can easily and
reliably refer to them in @code{file-system} declarations (@pxref{File