From 6ab63268e4a100340995fc16cb4afc34c0edae09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:46:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] 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'.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 1356a357cca..601cf51b379 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
+@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
-- 
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