How to Override Default inode64 mount option in openSUSE 12.3?

[Gim Leong Chin]

Hi,


I have just set up openSUSE 12.3 on my Acer notebook with a 750 GB WD hard drive, "/" with 80 GB and "/home" with 587 GB, both are XFS.

Both file systems are mounted with inode64 and no matter what I put in /etc/fstab, I am not able to remove inode64 option.

Is there any method to override the inode64 default mount option?

The reason I need to get rid of it is that acroread will not start, and I suspect that it is due to inode64, although I cannot confirm with strace on acroread.

Since the two file systems are under 1 TB, what is the point of inode64 any way?

[Jeff Liu]

Hello,

Post by Gim Leong Chin
Hi,
I have just set up openSUSE 12.3 on my Acer notebook with a 750 GB WD hard drive, "/" with 80 GB and "/home" with 587 GB, both are XFS.
Both file systems are mounted with inode64 and no matter what I put in /etc/fstab, I am not able to remove inode64 option.
Is there any method to override the inode64 default mount option?

The inode64 mount option can be changed to inode32 via remount, e.g.
# mount -oremount,inode32 /storage_path

But I have no idea of the reason you facing now.

Thanks,
-Jeff

Post by Gim Leong Chin
The reason I need to get rid of it is that acroread will not start, and I suspect that it is due to inode64, although I cannot confirm with strace on acroread.
Since the two file systems are under 1 TB, what is the point of inode64 any way?
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[Dave Chinner]

Post by Gim Leong Chin
Hi,
I have just set up openSUSE 12.3 on my Acer notebook with a 750 GB WD hard drive, "/" with 80 GB and "/home" with 587 GB, both are XFS.
Both file systems are mounted with inode64 and no matter what I put in /etc/fstab, I am not able to remove inode64 option.

Your filesystem is smaller than 1TB, so inode numbers will never go
over 32 bits, so inode32/inode64 is irrelevant to your problem.

Post by Gim Leong Chin
Is there any method to override the inode64 default mount option?

-o inode32.

Post by Gim Leong Chin
The reason I need to get rid of it is that acroread will not
start, and I suspect that it is due to inode64, although I cannot
confirm with strace on acroread.

inode64 is not your problem.

Post by Gim Leong Chin
Since the two file systems are under 1 TB, what is the point of inode64 any way?

Because it's the metadata/data allocation policy that is used for
filesystems of less than 1TB.

Cheers,

Dave.