Why did Anaconda create a small extra free partition?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • An unnecesary 1 MiB free space was created when partitioning the disk with anaconda.  For example: 
    sda1        256    /boot     ext4
sda2      30720    /work3    ext4
sda3      20480    /         ext4
sda4      88031              Extended
  sda5    18022    /work1    ext4
  sda6    18022    /work2    ext4
  sda7    16384              swap
Free          1
Free      35599
  • See the attached RHEL6-2free.jpg screenshot.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

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