Re: increasing inode count

2014-10-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 15, 2014, at 2:08 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 14Oct2014 19:07, bruce 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 >> formatte

Re: increasing inode count

2014-10-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 14, 2014, at 7:07 PM, bruce wrote: > hey cameron... > > 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 tho

Re: increasing inode count

2014-10-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14Oct2014 19:07, bruce 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

Re: increasing inode count

2014-10-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/15/14 07:07, bruce 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 >

Re: increasing inode count

2014-10-14 Thread bruce
hey cameron... 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?? I'm going from m

Re: increasing inode count

2014-10-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14Oct2014 18:07, bruce wrote: Thanks Paul and others. I've had some tell me that you can do the inode increase as you create the drive/format it/partition it if you have a post % % process.. but no one has been able to tell me step by step how to do this!!! Just create the filesystem by ha

Re: increasing inode count

2014-10-14 Thread bruce
Thanks Paul and others. I've had some tell me that you can do the inode increase as you create the drive/format it/partition it if you have a post % % process.. but no one has been able to tell me step by step how to do this!!! If I use the gui to do an install.. can't figure it out.. A workarou

Re: increasing inode count

2014-10-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 02:31:03PM -0400, bruce wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Steven Stern > wrote: > > On 10/14/2014 12:00 PM, bruce wrote: > >> hi. > >> > >> got a test drive, single partition > >> > >> i'm trying to figureout how to increase the inode count > >> > >> the drive is fo

Re: increasing inode count

2014-10-14 Thread bruce
and how does booting off a separate device allow you to change the root partition /dev/sda inode count? you still have to then format the dev/sda drive, partition it, place the os on it, but you're back in the same place! unless there's a way to use the os install gui, to somehow increase th

Re: increasing inode count

2014-10-14 Thread Steven Stern
On 10/14/2014 12:00 PM, bruce wrote: > hi. > > got a test drive, single partition > > i'm trying to figureout how to increase the inode count > > the drive is formatted, single root partition, fixed inode count > > trying to figure out how to increase the inode count > > i can do that/increase

increasing inode count

2014-10-14 Thread bruce
hi. got a test drive, single partition i'm trying to figureout how to increase the inode count the drive is formatted, single root partition, fixed inode count trying to figure out how to increase the inode count i can do that/increase the inode if i have a partition, and i unmount,reformat/ u