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6ab63268e4a100340995fc16cb4afc34c0edae09 — Ludovic Courtès 8 years ago 46f5ae0
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'.
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

M doc/guix.texi
M doc/guix.texi => doc/guix.texi +6 -1
@@ 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