diff --git a/packaging/leapp-repository.spec b/packaging/leapp-repository.spec
index 937a738ee6..2b0a80d4ee 100644
--- a/packaging/leapp-repository.spec
+++ b/packaging/leapp-repository.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 %global repositorydir %{leapp_datadir}/repositories
 %global custom_repositorydir %{leapp_datadir}/custom-repositories
 
-%define leapp_repo_deps  9
+%define leapp_repo_deps  10
 
 %if 0%{?rhel} == 7
     %define leapp_python_sitelib %{python2_sitelib}
@@ -149,6 +149,16 @@ Provides:  leapp-repository-dependencies = %{leapp_repo_deps}
 ##################################################
 Requires:   dnf >= 4
 Requires:   pciutils
+
+# required to be able to format disk images with XFS file systems (default)
+Requires:   xfsprogs
+
+# required to be able to format disk images with Ext4 file systems
+# NOTE: this is not happening by default, but we can expact that many customers
+# will want to / need to do this - especially on RHEL 7 now. Adding this deps
+# as the best trade-off to resolve this problem.
+Requires:   e2fsprogs
+
 %if 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} == 7
 # Required to gather system facts about SELinux
 Requires:   libselinux-python
diff --git a/packaging/other_specs/leapp-el7toel8-deps.spec b/packaging/other_specs/leapp-el7toel8-deps.spec
index 4a181ee143..c4e0dd90b8 100644
--- a/packaging/other_specs/leapp-el7toel8-deps.spec
+++ b/packaging/other_specs/leapp-el7toel8-deps.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 %endif
 
 
-%define leapp_repo_deps  9
+%define leapp_repo_deps  10
 %define leapp_framework_deps 5
 
 # NOTE: the Version contains the %{rhel} macro just for the convenience to
@@ -68,6 +68,19 @@ Requires:   cpio
 # just to be sure that /etc/modprobe.d is present
 Requires:   kmod
 
+# required to be able to format disk images with XFS file systems (default)
+# NOTE: this is really needed on the source system, but keep it for the target
+# one too
+Requires:   xfsprogs
+
+# required to be able to format disk images with Ext4 file systems
+# NOTE: this is not happening by default, but we can expact that many customers
+# will want to / need to do this - especially on RHEL 7 now. Adding this deps
+# as the best trade-off to resolve this problem.
+# NOTE: this is really needed on the source system, but keep it for the target
+# one too
+Requires:   e2fsprogs
+
 
 %description -n %{lrdname}
 %{summary}