centos/fedora install without gui!

[bruce]

--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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It does not occur when installing.
>
> However, that said, you can
> 1. install Linux using the installer on say partition 2 (as an example),
> which would be a minimal partition big enough for installation.
>
> 2. Boot using the CD/DVD installation media.
> 3. 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.
>
>> 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.
>>>
>> .
>>
>