Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS Images on AWS with partitions on /dev/xvda1 are awkwared to resize

2015-04-30 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Kelly Prescott kpresc...@coolip.net wrote: to follow-up, I will give an example. Here is the listing for the official centos AMI: IMAGE ami-96a818feaws-marketplace/CentOS 7 x86_64 (2014_09_29) EBS HVM-b7ee8a69-ee97-4a49-9e68-afaee216db2e-ami-d2a117ba.2

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS Images on AWS with partitions on /dev/xvda1 are awkwared to resize

2015-04-30 Thread Kelly Prescott
I think the command-line is far more flexable then the GUI interface. I use ec2-api-tools, but the python boto stuff works virtually the same. On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Kelly Prescott kpresc...@coolip.net wrote: to follow-up, I will give

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS Images on AWS with partitions on /dev/xvda1 are awkwared to resize

2015-04-30 Thread Nathan March
So you're working from the command line tools in the EPEL 'cloud-init' package, not the AWS GUI? Because when I tried expanding the size of the base disk image in the GUI, I wound up with an an 8 Gig default /dev/xvda1 on a 20 Gig /dev/xvda. That's why I was looking at how do I resize

[CentOS-virt] CentOS Images on AWS with partitions on /dev/xvda1 are awkwared to resize

2015-04-29 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
I'm staring at the free CentOS images on AWS, and seeing that whoever set those up elected to use a partition for /dev/xvda1 rather than taking advantage of Amazon's tendency to use /dev/xvda, /dev/xvdb, etc. for each disk and use those directly as a file system. The result is that if you elect

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS Images on AWS with partitions on /dev/xvda1 are awkwared to resize

2015-04-29 Thread Kelly Prescott
This is not really a problem at all. when you launch your image for the first time, you can specify a larger / volume size and cloud-init-tools will take care of the rest. This is well documented in the AWS userguides. -- Kelly Prescott On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: I'm

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS Images on AWS with partitions on /dev/xvda1 are awkwared to resize

2015-04-29 Thread Kelly Prescott
to follow-up, I will give an example. Here is the listing for the official centos AMI: IMAGE ami-96a818feaws-marketplace/CentOS 7 x86_64 (2014_09_29) EBS HVM-b7ee8a69-ee97-4a49-9e68-afaee216db2e-ami-d2a117ba.2 aws-marketplace available public [marketplace:

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS Images on AWS with partitions on /dev/xvda1 are awkwared to resize

2015-04-29 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Kelly Prescott kpresc...@coolip.net wrote: This is not really a problem at all. when you launch your image for the first time, you can specify a larger / volume size and cloud-init-tools will take care of the rest. This is well documented in the AWS