spurious empty file /1 created during RHEL 7 installation

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • After installation, there is an empty file named '1' in top level of '/' directory.
# ls -l /1
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Nov 16  2016 /1

#  file /1
/1: empty

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux v. 7

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