Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI install noob questions

[cal]

On 12/26/20 4:39 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
 > On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 06:35:05PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
 >> On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 02:21:51PM -0700, Dan Egli wrote
 >>
 >>    Thanks.  I've managed to figure out parted...
 >>
 >> Number  Start    End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
 >>   1      1.00MiB  257MiB  256MiB  fat32        EFI   boot, esp
 >
 >    OK, now what?  I closed parted, came back later and I see that the
 > filesystem type has changed from fat32 to ext3.  How do I over-ride
 > this?
 >
 > Number  Start       End    Size    File system  Name  Flags
 >     1      1.00MiB   257MiB 256MiB  ext3         EFI   boot, esp
 >

After partitioning (in parted), did you use `mkfs.vfat -F 32
/dev/<partition ID>` to initialize the FAT32 filesystem on that
partition?

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Parts/Installation/Disks#Applying_a_filesystem_to_a_partition

`parted` is only editing the partition table, not the filesystems
applied to those partitions.

Cal