increasing inode count

[Chris Murphy]

On Oct 15, 2014, at 2:08 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:

> On 14Oct2014 19:07, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ok.. that gets me a drive - formatted / with partition, so when the
>> install process asks if i want to install or reformat.. is there an
>> option to allow me to simply install on the already
>> formatted/partitioned drive?? even though it won't have a previous os
>> on it??
> 
> There used to be options to (a) use the existing partitions and (b) not reformat the partitions, which I believe means don't install filesystem.

Not for /. Yes for /home, /var, /boot and others, those can be reused without reformatting required.


Chris Murphy