Fedora 9 support for the XFS file system

[Robert Locke]

On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 15:41 -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote:
> PS = Pete Stieber
> PS> Sorry I wasn't clear, but what package do I have to
> PS> load to get fsck.xfs and/or xfs_check, xfs_repair,
> PS> xfsdump?
> 
> To answer my own question...
> 
> # yum install xfsprogs
> 
> I found this by looking through
> 
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/9/Everything/i386/os/repoview/
> 
> There has to be a better way to find what package a particular program 
> is any.  I'm sure I'm missing something.  What is the preferred technique?
> 

Try:

yum whatprovides "*bin/fsck.xfs"

or

yum search xfs

HTH,

--Rob