[Openstack] Auto sizing filesystem using cloud-init is not always working

mad Engineer themadengin33r at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 13:19:39 UTC 2015


Thanks gustavo,its working now :)

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:38 PM, gustavo panizzo (gfa) <gfa at zumbi.com.ar> wrote:
>
>
> On 01/15/2015 07:05 PM, mad Engineer wrote:
>>
>> Thanks gustavo,
>>                          i have epel configured,through which i
>> installed cloud-utils and utils-growpart but not able to find
>> "dracut-modules-growroot " is it part of some other rpm?
>
> no
>
> $ yum info dracut-modules-growroot
>
> Installed Packages
> Name        : dracut-modules-growroot
> Arch        : noarch
> Version     : 0.20
> Release     : 2.el6
> Size        : 43 k
> Repo        : installed
> From repo   : epel
> Summary     : Automatically resize the root partition on first boot
> URL         :
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+source/cloud-initramfs-tools/0.20ubuntu1/+files/cloud-initramfs-tools_0.20ubuntu1.tar.gz
> License     : GPLv3
> Description : This dracut module will re-write the partition table of a disk
> so that the
>             : root partition has as much space as possible, bumping it up to
> the edge of the
>             : disk, or the edge of the next partition.
>
> sorry i can't help you more, i'm not a rpm guy but i assure you that's what
> you need
>
>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:04 PM, gustavo panizzo (gfa) <gfa at zumbi.com.ar>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/15/2015 06:28 PM, mad Engineer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> i have
>>>> cloud-utils.x86_64
>>>> cloud-init.x86_64
>>>> cloud-utils-growpart.x86_64 installed
>>>> i think the other is for debian distros as i can not find in yum
>>>> repos.I am using centos6.6.
>>>>
>>>> One strange thing is if i restart instance after creating,its
>>>> working,But not during the first boot.
>>>
>>>
>>> yeah, you need dracut-modules-growroot
>>>
>>> it comes from epel repo
>>>
>>>
>>> after install (in your golde image), rebuild your /boot/initramfs
>>> mkinitrd
>>> is your friend ,not as good friend as update-initramfs but still a
>>> friend.
>>>
>>>
>>> the old kernel that comes with centos 6 is to blame
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> 1AE0 322E B8F7 4717 BDEA BF1D 44BB 1BA7 9F6C 6333
>
>
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