Arch Linux

Yughin

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Registered: 2026-02-06

Posts: 2

mkfs.fat not working on installation media

Hello. First time trying to manually install arch linux. While trying to assign a filesystem to each of my 3 partitions, btrfs and swap both worked, but I cannot apply fat32 to my UEFI partition. When passing the comman "mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/sda1" (sda1 being my UEFI partition.) it simply returns "mkfs.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)". Any advice? I've tried searching, but It's hard to find relevant results. Thanks for any assistance!

frostschutz

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Registered: 2013-11-15

Posts: 1,611

Re: mkfs.fat not working on installation media

That's what mkfs.vfat looks like. Is there no filesystem on it afterwards? Or what are you expecting, or what other errors are there?

If you prefer more output, you can add -v (verbose flag) to the command.

Yughin

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Registered: 2026-02-06

Posts: 2

Re: mkfs.fat not working on installation media

Oh... My mistake... After running it with the verbose flag I see output and it does appear to be functioning... I was seeing output from btrfs and swap without having to pass a verbose flag, I suppose I was just confused that I wasn't seeing anything. Thank you.