I am trying to install F25 KDE 64 bit on an old HP Proliant with 2GB RAM and a 2005 BIOS currently used in production (don't look at me, look at the boss instead). The install is very very slow and took more than a half hour to fsck the 2TB raid 1 disks. I only initially want to install it on a free 20GB ext4 partition, no raid. Cannot unplug the 2TB disks. Is there a way to avoid the useless half hour fsck?
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Mayavimmer mayavimmer@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to install F25 KDE 64 bit on an old HP Proliant with 2GB RAM and a 2005 BIOS currently used in production (don't look at me, look at the boss instead). The install is very very slow and took more than a half hour to fsck the 2TB raid 1 disks. I only initially want to install it on a free 20GB ext4 partition, no raid. Cannot unplug the 2TB disks. Is there a way to avoid the useless half hour fsck? _______________________________________________
No, the installer currently insists on fsck'ing every ext4 file system it finds, whether it's going to be used for the installation or not. If the ext4 file system causing the delay is on a drive that will not be an installation target, maybe before running the installer you could do
# echo 1 > /sys/block/<dev>/device/delete
That should make that whole block device vanish (it'll be back after reboot).
Another option is to migrate to XFS...
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Chris Murphy -
Mayavimmer