Expanding an xen instance partition fails due to missing "growpart"?!

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Hello, I would like to expand a partitation on an instance, but for some reason the command growpart does not exist on this instance? I am proceeding as usual according to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/recognize-expanded-volume-linux.html, and this has also worked for the other instances in the past, only with the current one I fail at point 2c, as the command "growpart" obviously does not exist on my instance?!?

This is the current situation at this instance:

sudo lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT xvda 202:0 0 8G 0 disk -xvda1 202:1 0 5G 0 part / xvdb 202:16 0 15G 0 disk -xvdb1 202:17 0 15G 0 part /IOL

So the xvda drive has already been increased from 5 to 8 GB.

But when I try to enlarge it using growpart, the result looks like this:

sudo growpart /dev/xvda 1 sudo: growpart: command not found

And indeed, there is obviously none:

which growpart /usr/bin/which: no growpart in (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/ec2-user/bin)

Maybe you can imagine the look on my face when I saw this message? 8:o Where did that go?! Are there alternative ways to increase the partitation to the full drive size without growpart?

gefragt vor 2 Jahren1066 Aufrufe
1 Antwort
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Hello growpart command come with package cloud-utils-growpart . Ensure you have package installed on installed.

$sudo yum list cloud-utils-growpart

===> If missing rpm

$ sudo yum install cloud-utils-growpart

==> if installed, just reinstall will help to reinstate file /usr/bin/growpart

$sudo yum reinstall cloud-utils-growpart

Hitesh
beantwortet vor 2 Jahren
  • Thanks for naming the appropriate installation package, that was a very helpful hint.

    Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 ext4 8.9G 3.0G 5.5G 36% / (yes, 9 GB, added another GB since my initial post) tmpfs tmpfs 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /dev/shm /dev/xvdb1 ext4 15G 5.5G 9.3G 38% /IOL

    :-)

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