centos/fedora install without gui!

[bruce]

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 at 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.
>