New subject: centos/fedora install without gui!

14 Aug 2014

      --mke2fs pre-computes the ratio of number of inodes to total number of
    available block in the chosen partition
are you implying/saying that there can only be a single inode count
for a given patition size??
in my case, I'm going to have a large number of small files (2-5K) and
I might have millions in my test.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:25 PM, jd1008 jd1008@gmail.com wrote:
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It does not occur when installing.
However, that said, you can

install Linux using the installer on say partition 2 (as an example),

which would be a minimal partition big enough for installation.

Boot using the CD/DVD installation media.
Assuming there is plenty of space still available on the drive of your

choice,
    run fdisk or parted  (or gparted if you are in gui mode) and create
partition
    3 to the size you would like i to be.
4. Let us assume we are working with /dev/sda. You have say Windows on
/dev/sda1,
    your Linux on /dev/sda2, and you created /dev/sda3 (which is empty, but
you
    set it's partition type to Linux.
5. Read the man page for mkfe2fs. VERY IMPORTANT!!!
    You must know what the option -N SomeNumber  really means!!
    Without reading the man page, you could end up doing the unintended
thing.
    Specifying this number for inodes DOES NOT MEAN WHAT YOU THINK!!!
    mke2fs pre-computes the ratio of number of inodes to total number of
    available block in the chosen partition.
    Also, take a look at the option   -C  cluster-size  (if you intend to
have very many
    very large files (to reduce fragmentation).
6. Now make sure you are root (su) for running the command mke2fs.
Now you are ready to run mke2fs for partition /dev/sda3 based on your
understanding
of of the man page vs what you think you want to accomplish.
Good luck.
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ok...
but given that I've asked for how to be able to install centos/fedora
so I can increase the inode count!!!!!
still trying to figure this part out!  ie, where/how does one do the
cmdline/level install and where would the attribute for increasing the
inode count occur..
thanks
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:48 PM, jd1008 jd1008@gmail.com wrote:
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On 08/14/2014 12:29 PM, bruce wrote:
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Hi guys/list.
Looking into installing centos/fedora and I'd like to increase the
inodes on the partitions. So I'm trying to find a step by step process
to accomplish this.
As far as I can tell, the GUI/Anaconda doesn't have any place for me
to insert the increased inode count.
Comments would be appreciated.
ps.
I know I can take a partition offline, reformat it, and increase the
nodes, but I don't see how one can do this with the primary/root
portion of the drive on the same system..
thanks
The installer will not provide any interface where you specify the number
of
inodes.
IMHO, it is for the good or the overwhelming majority of users, who do
not
understand
the consequences of specifying their own inode count.
The short of the long is: Fewer inodes are normally used for filesystems
that
will contain very large or huge files and hardly any small files. Thus
most
of the
disk space is used for file storage.
The converse is that a considerably larger number of inodes would be used
for filesystems that will contain mostly small files, thus allow a larger
number of such small files.
But with the increasing size of disks, this issue becomes less and less
of a concern for most users.
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