Grow the root partition on boot

[Juerg Haefliger]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 08:16:39PM +0100, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
>> > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:25:07AM +0100, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
>> >> I have a need for the growroot feature that comes with cloud-utils and
>> >> cloud-initramfs-tools. I've noticed that these packages don't exist in
>> >> Fedora/EPEL and was wondering if there are any specific reasons for
>> >> that?
>> > The cloud-init package in F18 includes this. I'm not sure about EPEL.
>> I'm not seeing it in F18's cloud-init
>> (cloud-init-0.7.1-2.fc18.noarch). Maybe I didn't make myself clear
>> enough and we're talking about different things. What I'm looking for
>> is the initramfs script that enlarges the root partition to the
>> maximum possible size during first boot so that cloud-init can later
>> grow the root filesystem.
>
> Ah -- no, I think we may just be missing that. On the road now -- will look
> later when I have better internet.

FYI, I started to build a package. Hope it will be useful :-)

...Juerg


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