Arch Linux

anacar1s

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Registered: 2025-10-14

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I keep getting "fsck.vfat not found. ignore /dev/...." no matter what

Hello everyone. This is my second time installing arch linux and I cant seem to locate the source or reason behind this error message.

Im attempting to install arch on bare metal and when I go to reboot i get the following error message( im using systemd as my boot loader for what it's worth)

'fsck: fsck.vfat not found. Ignore dev/nvme0n1p1'

This is also the device that ive placed the efi partition on, and formatted it to the using ' mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/efi_system_partition' as per the installation guide, which to my knowledge formats the partition to vfat

Ive installed dosfstools which should've have been the fix according to some sources but that had no affect.

Ive doubled checked the fstab and all of the mount points and efi UUID matches  the one in the arch.conf

Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thank you!

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: I keep getting "fsck.vfat not found. ignore /dev/...." no matter what

Ive installed dosfstools which should've have been the fix

And will be but this is likely in the initramfs and fsck.vfat not available there - yet.
=> update your initramfs (ie run mkinitcpio)

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unixman

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Registered: 2015-03-12

Posts: 182

Re: I keep getting "fsck.vfat not found. ignore /dev/...." no matter what

hello. a harmless warning safe to ignore it. if you want to its disappear. make last colums zero zero as:

/dev/nvme0n1p1    /boot    vfat        noauto,rw    0 0

Or that caused by initrd phase before switch_root because no dosfstools into initrd so fsck.vfat. (i assumed)