installer: Create ext4 file systems with ‘-O large_dir’.

* gnu/installer/parted.scm (create-ext4-file-system): Pass
‘-O large_dir’ to ‘mkfs.ext4’.

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;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020, 2022 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2019-2020, 2022, 2024 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2020 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
;;; Copyright © 2022 Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
;;;
@ -1187,7 +1187,13 @@ (define (create-btrfs-file-system partition)
(define (create-ext4-file-system partition)
"Create an ext4 file-system for PARTITION file-name."
((run-command-in-installer) "mkfs.ext4" "-F" partition))
;; Enable the 'large_dir' feature so users can have a store of several TiBs.
;; Failing to do that, the directory index (enabled by 'dir_index') can fill
;; up and adding new files would fail with ENOSPC despite there being plenty
;; of free space and inodes:
;; <https://blog.merovius.de/posts/2013-10-20-ext4-mysterious-no-space-left-on/>.
((run-command-in-installer) "mkfs.ext4" "-F" partition
"-O" "large_dir"))
(define (create-fat16-file-system partition)
"Create a fat16 file-system for PARTITION file-name."