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Description of problem: The RHEL 6 Installation Guide Advanced Partitioning Example shows creating a RAID partition with '--size=1 --grow': http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html#s2-kickstart2-options-part-examples This can result in Anaconda tracebacks and the error "new lv is too large to fit in free space" as shown in bug 677915. Furthermore, as mentioned in bug 677915 comment 4: Second, the use of growable raid partitions is problematic as we make no guarantees that the various raid partitions will end up with sizes that please mdadm when the time comes to create the array. Fixed sizes are strongly recommended for software raid partitions. The initial size should be larger than the sum of logical volumes or filesystems that will be on the partition. In the example shown, there are two logical volumes 8000 MiB each, plus a third logical volume at least 1 MiB, so the RAID partitions should be 16001 plus some extra for overhead, so 16384 should be a good starting place: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ part raid.15 --size 16384 --grow --ondrive=hda ... part raid.25 --size 16384 --grow --ondrive=hdc ... raid pv.01 --fstype ext3 --device md4 --level=RAID1 raid.15 raid.25 ... volgroup sysvg pv.01 logvol /var --vgname=sysvg --size=8000 --name=var logvol /var/freespace --vgname=sysvg --size=8000 --name=freespacetouse logvol /usr/local --vgname=sysvg --size=1 --grow --name=usrlocal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please update the Installation Guide to use larger starting sizes for growable partitions.