Bug 1322273 - kickstart fails with raid5 44TiB disk setup on RHEL 7.1
Summary: kickstart fails with raid5 44TiB disk setup on RHEL 7.1
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-30 07:51 UTC by Hidehiko Matsumoto
Modified: 2019-11-14 07:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-05-27 16:16:59 UTC
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Description Hidehiko Matsumoto 2016-03-30 07:51:37 UTC
Description of problem:
The customer got the following messages when they install RHEL with raid5 44TiB disk.

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Not enough space in file systems for the current software selection.An additional 1998.98 MiB is needed.
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin installation | 'r' to refresh]
~~~


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-19.31.123-1.el7


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
The customer used the following configuration for kickstart with raid5 44TiB disk.

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bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda
part biosboot --fstype="biosboot" --ondisk=sda --size=1 --label=biosboot
part /boot --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=1024 --fsoptions="defaults,noatime" --label=boot
part swap --fstype="swap" --ondisk=sda --recommended --label=swap
part / --fstype="xfs" --grow --ondisk=sda --size=10240 --fsoptions="defaults,noatime" --label=root
~~~


Actual results:
Not enough space in file systems for the current software selection.An additional 1998.98 MiB is needed.
Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin installation | 'r' to refresh]


Expected results:
Space is available and installable


Additional info:
The customer tried to test the following Fedora rawhide with raid5 44TiB disk.

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https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Server/x86_64/os/images/
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And they could install Fedora rawhide.

Comment 2 David Lehman 2016-03-31 13:30:23 UTC
Please attach the logs from /tmp, collected after the failure occurs. Thank you.

Comment 9 Brian Lane 2016-05-27 16:16:59 UTC
This may be related to bug 1320436, which has been fixed in anaconda-21.48.22.66-1 but without the logs and the kickstart it is impossible to tell for sure.


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