John Hodrien wrote: > On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, James Pearson wrote: > > >>Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >> >>> RuntimeError: /usr/sbin/mkfs.xfs can not be run >> >>CentOS 5 doesn't support XFS in the installer >> >>Once you have installed CentOS (with ext3 on the root disk), you can >>then install the xfsprogs RPM and make XFS file systems on other >>partitions/disks > > > And that's the exact same answer Kaushal was given on #centos earlier in the > day. Let's not forget he was wanting an XFS /boot and / (and so using a > LiveCD was suggested to do the format and partition in advance of the > installer). Then there was a desire to do it all within the installer, so it > was suggested you could just copy mkfs.xfs into the installer and do it by > hand in the shell. I use a custom CentOS 5 installer that will create (and install on) XFS /boot and / - so it is possible, but does involve patching and rebuilding anaconda and then rebuilding the installer images (not a straight forward process). However, I'm not sure there is much to gain by having XFS /boot and / file systems James Pearson