577876 – Preparing the disks: EFI SYSTEM partition should be made with -F 32

Bug 577876 - Preparing the disks: EFI SYSTEM partition should be made with -F 32

Summary: Preparing the disks: EFI SYSTEM partition should be made with -F 32

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Installation Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Docs Team

URL:	https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook...
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Reported:	2016-03-20 21:02 UTC by Dainius Masiliūnas
Modified:	2016-03-21 09:26 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Dainius Masiliūnas 2016-03-20 21:02:37 UTC

At the moment, the handbook states to use this command to create an EFI SYSTEM partition:

mkfs.vfat /dev/sda2

However, for small partitions, this results in a FAT16 or even FAT12 partition. Instead, the command should be:

mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda2

Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-03-21 09:26:35 UTC

please use the "discussion" tab for suggestions on the handbook wiki page itself.