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:
On 08/14/2014 12:29 PM, bruce wrote:
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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bruce