hopefully this helps I have quite a few systems in the same boat. really large volume formated as xfs for storing backup data. Here is a simplified snippet from my kickstart files. part pv.2 --noformat --ondisk=sdb --size=1 --grow volgroup lg_largevol --pesize=32768 pv.2 %packages kmod-xfs xfsprogs xfsdump %post mkdir /mnt/largevol lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n lv_largevol lg_largevol /sbin/mkfs.xfs /dev/lg_largevol/lv_largevol echo "/dev/lg_largevol/lv_largevol /mnt/largevol xfs defaults,allocsize=256m 1 2" >> /etc/fstab On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:02 AM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote: > > lhecking at users.sourceforge.net wrote: > > > No filesystem is specified be cause want to use xfs, which kickstart does > > not > > support out of the box. This is under 5.2, but the 5.3/5.4 relnotes do not > > indicate that this problem has been fixed. Or has it? > > partition manually using %pre or %post ? > > nate > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos