On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 at 04:10, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat 13 Nov 2021 at 00:31:42 (+0000), phoebus phoebus wrote:
> > Do you know if it possible to set the number of inodes to create in
> > the filesystem during the installalation with the pressed file?
> > If i start from this example for the filesystem /var/log, how to set
> > numbers of inodes inside it ?
> > 500 550 1024 ext4 \ lv_name{ varlog } \
> > method{ lvm } format{ } \
> > use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext4 } \
> > label{ varlog } \
> > mountpoint{ /var/log } \
> > options/nodev{ nodev } \
> > options/nosuid{ nosuid } \
> > options/noexec{ noexec } \
> > options/relatime{ relatime } \
> > $lvmok{ } \
> > . \
> > Hope to do it as mkfs do it: mkfs -t ext4 -N iNumberOfINodes /dev/XdY ?
> I don't know about the actual number, but I think there's a crude
> switch under use_filesystem{ } which can be set, from memory,
> to one of three options, Standard, large files (fewer inodes for,
> say, multimedia) and lots of files (more inodes, say, mail server).
> I've only seen the choice (years ago) in the interactive d-i,
> and don't know the magic preseed terms.
This site is quite useful:
https://preseed.debian.net/debian-preseed/
>From there I found this file for bullseye:
https://preseed.debian.net/debian-preseed/bullseye/amd64-main-full.txt
which contains this stanza which appears to match your description:
### Description: Typical usage of this partition:
# Please specify how the file system is going to be used, so that
# optimal file system parameters can be chosen for that use.
# .
# standard = standard parameters,
# news = one inode per 4KB block,
# largefile = one inode per megabyte,
# largefile4 = one inode per 4 megabytes.
# d-i partman-basicfilesystems/specify_usage select <choice>
# Possible choices: ${CHOICES}
Which is not what the OP requested, but maybe it helps. It is the only
occurrence of "inode" in that file. I did not check the other two files
that contain the "contrib" and "non-free" data.
