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(a)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.