[CentOS-devel] Dracut hooks question (growroot)

[Nux!]

Ah, meh. I was using the 0.7.4 cloud-init from EL6 (rebuilt) which doesn't do the growpart bit. I'll update my configs.

Thanks, Neil.

Lucian

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Neil Wilson" <neil at brightbox.co.uk>
> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at centos.org>
> Sent: Thursday, 24 July, 2014 5:55:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Dracut hooks question (growroot)
> 
> 
> On 24 Jul 2014, at 02:13, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Been trying like mad to find a way to resize the partition of a EL7 VM
> > template from the initramfs (basically run fdisk on /dev/vda) as I did for
> > EL6, but with the new systemd+dracut it seems like either I find the disks
> > in a nonexistent state or they are already in use.
> > I think I went through all relevant hooks; pre-mount is  a lie, at that
> > stage the disk is seemingly already in use. :)
> > 
> > Does anyone have a tip how to go about this?
> > 
> 
> You don’t need to do it in initramfs any more.
> 
> cloud-init runs ‘growpart’ during the normal startup routine and it works
> fine on the newer kernels that can handle a running partition size change.
> 
> So just install ‘cloud-utils-growpart’ and either let cloud-init take care of
> it or run ‘growpart’ yourself.
> 
> 
> Rgs
> 
> NeilW
> 
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