[H-GEN] misreported drive space

[Matt Bodman]

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I have a friend who is trying to install Redhat 7.1.  He wrote me with
following:

It gets to the part where it wants to set up all the partitions. The
problem
is I have 5-6 gigs of unpartitioned space on a 30 gig drive, but the
drive
information on the screen only reports an 8 gig drive total.. it reports
the
used space correctly, but then the available space is listed as
somewhere around -16 gigs, which is why it won't let me continue.. No
matter how small I make the boot partition it says it's too big because
it thinks there is negative space on the drive..

Anyone know what's going on?

Thanks, Matt



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