Hello all. Does anyone have any suggestions for making centos cloud images that can automatically repartition the root device to resize the filesystem?
All the Ubuntu UEC images do this, so using the same image, you can launch cloud instances of a variety of flavors and the VM instance will repartition the root disk and resize the fs. The Ubuntu images utilize scripts in the initramfs dpkg that handle this. Just curious if anyone has been able to replicate this functionality.
Abel Lopez wrote:
Hello all. Does anyone have any suggestions for making centos cloud images that can automatically repartition the root device to resize the filesystem?
All the Ubuntu UEC images do this, so using the same image, you can launch cloud instances of a variety of flavors and the VM instance will repartition the root disk and resize the fs. The Ubuntu images utilize scripts in the initramfs dpkg that handle this. Just curious if anyone has been able to replicate this functionality.
I'm unfamiliar with Ubuntu's facility, but it sounds like a ks thing.
mark
Yes, it can be done. Kickstart configs are the solution.
Note: I generally do not have more than one LV or physical partition that is set to --grow. But it was out of simplicity and I didn't have a need.
Given the online documentation, it does look like you can specify more than one. But it does appear to only apply to LVM LVs. Look for the following line in the documentation [0]. logvol / --vgname=myvg --size=1 --name=rootvol --grow --percent=90
I won't get around to testing this until Monday, so if you find something out before then please share! I can see this being plenty helpful for a web server kickstart I have (where /var grows and / is fixed ... might be nice to have them balance out a bit).
[0] https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/ht...
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Abel Lopez alopgeek@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all. Does anyone have any suggestions for making centos cloud images that can automatically repartition the root device to resize the filesystem?
All the Ubuntu UEC images do this, so using the same image, you can launch cloud instances of a variety of flavors and the VM instance will repartition the root disk and resize the fs. The Ubuntu images utilize scripts in the initramfs dpkg that handle this. Just curious if anyone has been able to replicate this functionality. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 09/21/2012 10:19 PM, Abel Lopez wrote:
Hello all. Does anyone have any suggestions for making centos cloud images that can automatically repartition the root device to resize the filesystem?
this is done via a hook in cloud-init ( which is available for CentOS-5 and 6 in EPEL ). You just need to make sure your cloud instance provides the right config information.
On 21.09.2012 22:19, Abel Lopez wrote:
Hello all. Does anyone have any suggestions for making centos cloud images that can automatically repartition the root device to resize the filesystem?
All the Ubuntu UEC images do this, so using the same image, you can launch cloud instances of a variety of flavors and the VM instance will repartition the root disk and resize the fs. The Ubuntu images utilize scripts in the initramfs dpkg that handle this. Just curious if anyone has been able to replicate this functionality. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi,
You want to read this http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2012-September/008893.html
Thanks Nux, I used your image, and I see resizing works as expected. Odd, I too use the cloud-init rpm, but mine just ignores it. I can take what you have and make it work.
On Sep 21, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Nux! wrote:
On 21.09.2012 22:19, Abel Lopez wrote:
Hello all. Does anyone have any suggestions for making centos cloud images that can automatically repartition the root device to resize the filesystem?
All the Ubuntu UEC images do this, so using the same image, you can launch cloud instances of a variety of flavors and the VM instance will repartition the root disk and resize the fs. The Ubuntu images utilize scripts in the initramfs dpkg that handle this. Just curious if anyone has been able to replicate this functionality. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi,
You want to read this http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2012-September/008893.html
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Nux! www.nux.ro _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 22.09.2012 00:32, Abel Lopez wrote:
Thanks Nux, I used your image, and I see resizing works as expected. Odd, I too use the cloud-init rpm, but mine just ignores it. I can take what you have and make it work.
That's because I don't rely on cloud-init to do it; it's done from the initramfs with fdisk, before the fs gets mounted. You can decompress the initramfs and in the "mount" directory you will find my script (called 05-something).
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