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
