[CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

[S.Tindall]

On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 16:40 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote:
> Am 10.04.2011 15:30, schrieb Tom H:
> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Rainer Traut<tr.ml at gmx.de>  wrote:
> >>
> >> it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install.
> >> I thought upstream has ext4 fully supported in 5.6?
> >> I looked in release notes but only found reference to ext4 in RHEL5.6
> >
> > From
> > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html-single/5.6_Technical_Notes/index.html
> >
> > As of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 the ext4 file system is fully
> > supported. However, provisioning ext4 file systems with the anaconda
> > installer is not supported, and ext4 file systems need to be
> > provisioned manually after the installation.
> 
> Thx Tom for making this clear.
> 
> Rainer

Just boot the installer with the "ext4" option and anaconda will be able
to format ext4, or at least that works in 5.5.

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/InstallOnExt4



Steve