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 at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: <snip> > 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. mark