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Description of problem: I install RHEL 6 using a kickstart file that sets up two disks for RAID level 1 in the pre-install script as follows: echo "part raid.11 --size 200 --ondisk=sda --asprimary" >> /tmp/part-include echo "part raid.12 --size=4096 --ondisk=sda" >> /tmp/part-include echo "part raid.13 --size=8192 --grow --ondisk=sda" >> /tmp/part-include echo "part raid.21 --size 200 --ondisk=sdb --asprimary" >> /tmp/part-include echo "part raid.22 --size=4096 --ondisk=sdb" >> /tmp/part-include echo "part raid.23 --size=8192 --grow --ondisk=sdb" >> /tmp/part-include Note that the third partition consumes all remaining space on the disk, which is normally more than 8GB. Note also that the 200MB partition gets rounded up to 210MB. The problem is that when I replace a faulty disk with a new one I can not set up the same partition sizes using the GNOME Disk Utility. If I try to create a partition of size 200 it gets rounded up to 214MB not 210MB, and as a result I can not add the new disk to the raid array because the third partition ends up smaller than it should be (assuming the new disk is the same size as the old one). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.30.1 How reproducible: See description Expected results: Disk Utility should be able to exactly reproduce the installation partition sizes as this is essential for RAID. (Ideally for RAID I would like to be able to copy the sizes from one of the existing live disks in the array with a single click!)
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