Comment 55 for bug 37452

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jessy (bjoern-boschman) wrote : Re: [Bug 37452] Re: fusion mpt sas driver does not find a RAID1 disk during installation(Sun Galaxy X4200 and X4100, Dell SASR5/i)

Hi Etienne,

unfortunatelly I do not know how much space needs to be kept free at the
end of the drive - I always assumed 100megs which worked for me (36G drives)
free space on the filesystem does not do the job.

Bjoern

Etienne Goyer schrieb:
> Jessy: when you say "some megs free", do you mean to leave unallocated
> space at the end of the drive ? When I use a single partition for the
> entire disk, it refuse to create the RAID 1 volume non-destructively,
> claiming lack of free space, even though I have plenty of free space in
> the file system.
>