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
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:29:12 -0400 bruce wrote:
As far as I can tell, the GUI/Anaconda doesn't have any place for me to insert the increased inode count.
I've given up using anaconda on my targets. I almost always install now into a virtual machine, partition a hard disk manually, then guestmout and rsync the virtual install onto a real disk partitioned the way I want it :-).
Need to clean up UUIDs and such, and chroot into it to run the grub install, but one big advantage is that the system is up and running the entire time I'm doing the install into the virtual machine.
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Tom Horsley wrote:
I've given up using anaconda on my targets. I almost always install now into a virtual machine, partition a hard disk manually, then guestmout and rsync the virtual install onto a real disk partitioned the way I want it :-).
Need to clean up UUIDs and such, and chroot into it to run the grub install, but one big advantage is that the system is up and running the entire time I'm doing the install into the virtual machine.
That's a neat idea. I've never tried it. I think I will.
billo
Once upon a time, bruce badouglas@gmail.com said:
As far as I can tell, the GUI/Anaconda doesn't have any place for me to insert the increased inode count.
So, I asked for the ability to set custom options many years ago, and was told there's a way to do it through kickstart. Basically, you have to have a %pre that adds custom entries to /etc/mke2fs.conf, and then you reference them in the logvol and/or part lines in the kickstart with "--fsprofile=foo".
However, then it didn't work for me (in RHEL 6 IIRC) because of a bug that there was no telling when it would be fixed, so I manually created filesystems the way I wanted (still in kickstart) and I never looked back at the "official" way to do it. You can't do that anymore because anaconda devs decided they should always format the root filesystem.