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Merge pull request #39066 from ckauhaus/submit/38674-installdocs-mkfs

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Clarify installation steps w.r.t. disk partitions
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Graham Christensen 2018-04-17 08:49:41 -04:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -115,23 +115,17 @@ for a UEFI installation is by and large the same as a BIOS installation. The dif
<varlistentry><term>UEFI systems</term>
<listitem><para>For creating boot partitions:
<command>mkfs.fat</command>. Again it’s recommended to assign a
label to the boot partition: <option>-L
label to the boot partition: <option>-n
<replaceable>label</replaceable></option>. For example:
<screen>
# mkfs.fat -F 32 -L boot /dev/sda3</screen>
# mkfs.fat -F 32 -n boot /dev/sda3</screen>
</para></listitem></varlistentry></variablelist></listitem>
<listitem><para>For creating LVM volumes, the LVM commands, e.g.,
<screen>
# pvcreate /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
# vgcreate MyVolGroup /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
# lvcreate --size 2G --name bigdisk MyVolGroup
# lvcreate --size 1G --name smalldisk MyVolGroup</screen>
</para></listitem>
<command>pvcreate</command>, <command>vgcreate</command>, and
<command>lvcreate</command>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>For creating software RAID devices, use
<command>mdadm</command>.</para></listitem>
@ -155,6 +149,7 @@ for a UEFI installation is by and large the same as a BIOS installation. The dif
<listitem><para>Mount the boot file system on <filename>/mnt/boot</filename>, e.g.
<screen>
# mkdir -p /mnt/boot
# mount /dev/disk/by-label/boot /mnt/boot
</screen>
@ -366,8 +361,9 @@ drive (here <filename>/dev/sda</filename>). <xref linkend="ex-config"
# mkfs.ext4 -L nixos /dev/sda1
# mkswap -L swap /dev/sda2
# swapon /dev/sda2
# mkfs.fat -F 32 -L boot /dev/sda3 # <lineannotation>(for UEFI systems only)</lineannotation>
# mkfs.fat -F 32 -n boot /dev/sda3 # <lineannotation>(for UEFI systems only)</lineannotation>
# mount /dev/disk/by-label/nixos /mnt
# mkdir -p /mnt/boot # <lineannotation>(for UEFI systems only)</lineannotation>
# mount /dev/disk/by-label/boot /mnt/boot # <lineannotation>(for UEFI systems only)</lineannotation>
# nixos-generate-config --root /mnt
# nano /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix