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[Benoit ML <ben42ml@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Thank you for your answers, Effectively I did'nt see this point ...
I must now think about it ... I hope that "copy ganlance image to
cinder bootable volume" will answer to this probleme.

That's because in our hand made cloud, we use cobbler/kickstart to
deploy every VM ... so  no resize needed during the installation.


Regards,


2013/1/30 Juerg Haefliger <juergh@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Benoit ML <ben42ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I' new in openstack world (but not in virtualisation/cloud) and I'm
>> asking myself (and you ;) ) what's the objective and interest to
>> resize disk at boot time ?
>
> Cloud images are usually built as small as possible. For example the
> Ubuntu images are 2 GB in size. When an instance is launched, Nova
> resizes the image file according to the instance flavor selected (for
> example 10 GB for a small instance, 100 GB for an X large instance,
> aso). It is then up to the guest to make use of that additional disk
> space. One approach is to have a script the initramfs that enlarges
> the root partition to the max available size, ideally consuming the
> whole disk. Later in the boot process, cloud-init runs and
> online-resizes the root filesystem. Thus you end up with an instance
> with a root filesystem that consumes the whole disk.
>
> ...Juerg
>
>
>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> 2013/1/29 Juerg Haefliger <juergh@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> ...Juerg
>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Pádraig.
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Benoit



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