Fred Smith wrote:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:49:43PM -0700, Devin Reade wrote:
--On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 11:07:12 PM -0500 Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
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I've been building C7 VMs with RAID-1 in Virtualbox these last couple of days, to pin down exactly how to do it. based on the link above, but I'm making "real" partitions instead of LVM.
The current iteration seems to be running fine, but I had an odd problem when configuring the partitions: for two 10 gig virtual drives, it wouldn't let me use the last gig of space. or maybe it has some other issue on the max partition size,... it seemed to max out at around 9900 MB. This for sure won't do when I build it on real hardware, so I'm wondering if anyone else here has a clue what's going on??
Two thoughts: one, as Gordon suggested, it might be making a /boot partition. The other thought is that it might be trying to align the partition optimal. Still, that's usually 1M or 2M, not 1G.
Btw, when I manually create partitions, with parted, I use mkpart pri 0.0GB 100% (for data drives). Assuming I've gone in with parted -a opt, it does the right thing. Hope this gives you some ideas.
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