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[Juerg Haefliger <juergh@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Scott Moser <smoser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Pádraig Brady <P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On 01/29/2013 01:08 PM, JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for your replies!!
>> >>
>> >> Has anyone tried to resize root disk of Centos/Fedora instances with
>> >> cloud-init?
>>
>> I assume you're referring to resizing the root partition?
>>
>> >
>> > Juerg Haefliger is working on cloud-utils and cloud-initramfs-tools
>> > packages for Fedora/Red Hat, which support the growroot feature.
>> > He might have some packages for you to test.
>>
>> Yes working on packaging for RHEL and adding support for GPT partition
>> tables for Fedora. I could give you preliminary RHEL6 packages but
>> Fedora is not quite there yet. Let me know.

Hi Scott,

> Juerg,
>    I'm interested/willing to help with this.  I'd like for growpart to
> have support for GPT partitions also.  Please let me know how I can help.

I'm almost there. Expect a merge request either later today or tomorrow :-)


>    One exciting thing is that newer kernels now support 'update' of a
> partition table, that should be a good fit for simplistic growing like
> we're interested in.  util-linux has recently gained the ability to tell
> the kernel to update its partition table view at [1].
>    What that means is that going forward we won't have to do this stuff
> inside the initramfs, and I'd like for cloud-init to be able to drive it
> itself.

That is indeed good news. Are you working on the cloud-init changes already?

...Juerg


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> [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux/util-linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=3b905b794e93609af7e42459d32b27e7c18ce02e