On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Nux! <nux at 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.