diff --git a/README b/README
index 2bb57388c48..4409f77bd1d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 - Login as "root", empty password.
 
 - The NixOS installer doesn't do any partitioning or formatting yet,
-  so you need to that yourself.  Use "fdisk" and "e2fsck".
+  so you need to that yourself.  Use "fdisk", "mkfs.ext2" and "tune2fs".
 
 - Unpack the NixOS and Nixpkgs sources: