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I have a 500Mb ATA Flash drive in my machine. If I deselect everything at install time (CentOS 5.0 - just for testing) it still requires 524Mb. Is there any way of doing an even smaller install? -- rgds Stephen

...End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 683MB 682MB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag 2 683MB 892MB 210MB fat16 EFI System Partition boot 4 1089MB 212GB 211GB ntfs Basic data partition 3 212GB 213GB 524MB ext4 6 213GB 214GB 524MB xfs 7 214GB 978GB 765GB lvm 5 978GB 1000GB 21.8GB ntfs Basic data partition hidden (parted) quit [root at localhost boot]# efibootmg...

Subject says it. I would like to find out if I have anything written on the MBR of a disk in my system /dev/sda, or any other device. If there is something there, is it readable, or recognizable to humans? thanks, -chuck

...up but no joy. Any Ideas what I've done wrong? parted output [root at nas ~]# parted -l Model: ATA ST31000528AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 525MB 524MB primary ext4 boot 2 525MB 1000GB 1000GB primary lvm Model: ATA ST2000DM001-1E61 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 2000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 2000GB 20...

...been opened read-only. When I take a look at things using parted I see this: # parted -l print Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAKS-0 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 525MB 524MB primary ext4 boot 2 525MB 500GB 500GB primary lvm Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm) Disk /dev/mapper/vg_inet02-lv_guest01: 129GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B...

Hi Jim, Thanks for this. I looked into what you said, and once happy I ran the command you gave. It appeared to work as it did not come up with any errors, and the output from efibootmgr showed 1) Centos had been added as an option and 2) it was the first in the boot sequence. However, when I rebooted the laptop went straight into Win8, and after rebooting back into KDE Live, the option is

...artiion table for the device. you can display the latter like... $ sudo parted /dev/sda print Model: ATA Crucial_CT512M55 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 512GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 525MB 524MB primary ext4 boot 2 525MB 512GB 512GB primary lvm note tho, that if "Partition Table" instead says gpt, then the disk is formatted GPT and doesn't use the MBR. $ sudo parted /dev/sdb print Model: ATA ST32000644NS (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 2000GB Sect...

...m Flags 1 0.00B 18.8GB 18.8GB xfs Model: Virtio Block Device (virtblk) Disk /dev/vda: 21.5GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 525MB 524MB primary xfs boot 2 525MB 21.5GB 20.9GB primary lvm This is NOT the case with my CentOS 5 and CentOS 6 VMs, which all have a "correct" device map, with a single (hda0) entry. Is the above behavior expected? If not, what should be the expected way...

...v/sdb Using /dev/sdb (parted) print Model: ATA ST500DM002-1BD14 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 211MB 210MB fat16 boot 2 211MB 735MB 524MB ext4 3 735MB 500GB 499GB lvm /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf looks like this: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all ke...

.../dev/shm tmpfs defaults,nodev,. . . parted -l Model: ATA WDC WD1002FAEX-0 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1094kB 525MB 524MB primary ext4 boot 2 525MB 500GB 500GB primary lvm Model: Linux device-maper (linear) (dm) Disk: /dev/mapper/vg_voinet01-lv_spool: 68.7GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size Type File...

.../ Solaris /dev/sdb3 2074624 6268927 4194304 2G 83 Linux and parted: Model: Kingston SNA-DC/U (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 120GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 525MB 524MB primary ext3 2 525MB 1062MB 537MB primary linux-swap(v1) 3 1062MB 3210MB 2147MB primary ext4 what dd params work? dd if=/dev/sdb of=os.img bs=1M count=3210 ? thanks

...al CD 0329> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd0: 40.000MB/s transfers cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus6 target 0 lun 1 da0: <iDRAC Virtual Floppy 0329> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 524MB (1073741 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 524C) Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot []... ix0: 2 link states coalesced ix1: 2 link states coalesced ix0: 2 link states coalesced ---- network related loader.conf settings: ---- dev.bge.0.msi="0" dev.bge.1.msi="0" net.inet.tcp.syncache...