diff --git a/gnu/system/install.scm b/gnu/system/install.scm
index 6cde649995..b380716b69 100644
--- a/gnu/system/install.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/install.scm
@@ -370,6 +370,7 @@ (define installation-os
                      parted ddrescue
                      grub                  ;mostly so xrefs to its manual work
                      cryptsetup
+                     btrfs-progs
                      wireless-tools iw wpa-supplicant-minimal iproute
                      ;; XXX: We used to have GNU fdisk here, but as of version
                      ;; 2.0.0a, that pulls Guile 1.8, which takes unreasonable