Partitioning a 2nd hard drive

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Hey All,

I have two hard drives in my system:  sda=40 Gig and sdb=70 Gig.

The following partitioning scheme works fine:

zerombr yes
clearpart --all
part /boot --size 16
part swap --size 1024
part / --size 250
part /usr --size 2000
part /var --size 2000 --grow
part /usr/local --size 2000
part /home --size 2000
part /data --size 70000 --grow    ##(this is the 2nd 70 gig hard drive)

I wanted to place a smaller size along with the grow switch in for the 2nd
hard drive in case not every system has that large of a drive.  If I use
anything smaller than 67,000 for the size (I've tried 5 different sizes
ranging from 2,000 to 60,000), I get a kernel panic when I reboot.  Here
are the last few lines I see when I reboot.

Partition Check:
##info for sda
SCSI device sdb: 143374741 512-byte hdwr sectors(73408MB)
sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 >
Kernel Panic VFS Unable to mount root fs on 08:0a

If I use 70,000 for the size and the system reboots successfully, the
Partition Check during startup looks a bit different.

Partition Check:
##info for sda
SCSI device sdb: 143374741 512-byte hdwr sectors(73408MB)
sdb: sdb1

Does that mean anything to anybody?

I don't see any errors on the virtual consoles during kickstart.  And when
I do a "df -h" at the shell prompt during kickstart, it seems like the 2nd
hard drive never fills up all the space.  For instance, if I said "part
/data --size 20,000 --grow" the available space is about 57Gig and if I do
"--size 2,000" the available space is 31Gig.

I know multiple grow commands don't work well but I assumed that meant
multiple grow commands on one drive.  Is that what my problem is?

I am using Redhat 7.1.

Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated!!

Regards,
Rebecca





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