putting together the growpart pieces

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Fri Mar 8 20:45:59 UTC 2013


On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 08:13:49PM +0100, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> > Could we subpackage the growroot script? (It's kind of random that it's in
> > _this_ package instead of cloud-init itself, isn't it? Maybe upstream would
> > consider moving it?)
> I asked that too a while ago and upstream wasn't totally against it.
> The latest cloud-init that supports growroot also supports the use of
> 'parted' instead of the growpart script. Haven't tried it but that
> would make all my cloud-utils packaging efforts a waste of time and we
> don't want that, do we? ;-)

Well, the cloud-init native way does sound better. I didn't realize actual
support for that in F18 was so near to actually possible. Maybe it's better
to chalk it up to being a learning experience and move on? :)

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