Re: centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread bruce
per a number of different articles, one of which: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2013/01/mke2fs-examples/ # mkfs -t ext3 -v -N 70 /dev/sda6 appears to allow you to simply raise the number of inodes for the given partition that's already been create in actuality, it appears that you can achi

Re: centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread 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 mi

Re: centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, bruce 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

Re: centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread 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

Re: centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread Bill Oliver
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 su

Re: centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread Tom Horsley
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 guestm