[CentOS] Expand XFS filesystem on CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)

Fri Mar 12 20:16:08 UTC 2021
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 7:59 PM Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > Am 12.03.2021 um 15:23 schrieb Thomas Mueller <thomas at chaschperli.ch>:
>> >
>> > On 3/12/21 1:45 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>> >> Is there a way to expand xfs filesystem /dev/nvme0n1p2 which is 7.8G
>> and
>> >> occupy the remaining free disk space of 60GB?
>> >
>> > parted porbably could do it. there is also a gparted gui (
>> https://gparted.org/ <https://gparted.org/>), but doesn't seem to be in
>> CentOS 8.
>> >
>> > Maybe boot from a livecd that includes the gui tool, like
>> https://gparted.org/livecd.php <https://gparted.org/livecd.php> or
>> https://www.system-rescue.org/ <https://www.system-rescue.org/>
>>
>>
>> If the downtime is acceptable, that’s almost always the smartest thing
>> to
>> do, IMO.
>>
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>
> Thanks for the reply. I am running this instance in AWS.
>
> [root at ip-10-0-0-218 centos]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)
> [root at ip-10-0-0-218 centos]#
>
>>> Looks like you could move p3 to the end of the disk and then enlarge p2
> and then grow the XFS on it.
>
> Is there a way to move p3 to the end of the disk using fdisk or gparted
> CLI
> tool?
>

I'm afraid I can't help with AWS, I've never used it and don't know what
the partitions are used for.

Simon