On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Mayavimmer <mayavimmer@xxxxxxxxx> 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?
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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
# 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
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