Bug 577876

Summary:	Preparing the disks: EFI SYSTEM partition should be made with -F 32
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Dainius Masiliūnas <pastas4>
Component:	Installation Handbook	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks#Using_UEFI
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.