----- Original Message ----- | On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote: | > On 22.02.2014 22:27, James A. Peltier wrote: | >> | >> partprobe can rescan partitions, but it can't resize them. You | >> may | >> be able to use gparted or the parted text mode to resize | >> partitions | >> online. | > | > Sadly you can't really do this without reboot. I'd love to be | > wrong, | > but I hit the same problem in the past and I simply found no way of | > doing it. | > Even with centos cloud instances, this operation (resize partition) | > has | > to be done from initramfs before the filesystems go "live". | | So my question is 'why can't partitions be grown live like disks | can?' | I'm tempted to call this a bug.
Try
blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdX
of course substituting /dev/sdX for the correct device.