Public bug reported: Under the blueprint 'cloud-server-n-cloud-images' [1] I was working on tool to resize partitions in existing images. I've done that work in 2 parts * adding 'growpart' to the cloud-utils package * adding a new package 'cloud-initramfs-tools'
Adding 'growpart' to the cloud-utils package allows a user to easily do something like: * download compressed uec image from [2], uncompress file * convert file to 'raw' image type (qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw natty-server-uec-amd64-disk1.vmdk disk.img) * increase the size from the default ~ 1.5G disk (truncate --size 4G disk.img) * rewrite the partition table so that there /dev/sda1 has access to the new space growpart disk.img 1 Adding the cloud-initramfs-tools package (and having it cloud-initramfs- growroot inside the UEC image) would allow the user to skip the final step. Having images that automatically respond to a root volume increase will be useful in cloud environments. I have uploaded the signed source package to [3]. I had Jamie Strandboge review the package, and he's agreed to upload. I would have had this in yesterday (before Feature Freeze) but I just ran out of time at the end. -- [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/cloud-server-n-cloud-images [2] http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/server/natty/current/ovf/ [3] http://people.canonical.com/~smoser/cloud-initramfs-tools/ ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: uec-images ** Description changed: Under the blueprint 'cloud-server-n-cloud-images' [1] I was working on tool to resize partitions in existing images. I've done that work in 2 parts - * adding 'growpart' to the cloud-utils package - * adding a new package 'cloud-initramfs-tools' + * adding 'growpart' to the cloud-utils package + * adding a new package 'cloud-initramfs-tools' Adding 'growpart' to the cloud-utils package allows a user to easily do something like: - * download compressed uec image from [2], uncompress file - * convert file to 'raw' image type (qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw natty-server-uec-amd64-disk1.vmdk disk.img) - * increase the size from the default ~ 1.5G disk (truncate --size 4G disk.img) - * rewrite the partition table so that there /dev/sda1 has access to the new space - growpart disk.img 1 + * download compressed uec image from [2], uncompress file + * convert file to 'raw' image type (qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw natty-server-uec-amd64-disk1.vmdk disk.img) + * increase the size from the default ~ 1.5G disk (truncate --size 4G disk.img) + * rewrite the partition table so that there /dev/sda1 has access to the new space + growpart disk.img 1 Adding the cloud-initramfs-tools package (and having it cloud-initramfs- growroot inside the UEC image) would allow the user to skip the final step. Having images that automatically respond to a root volume increase will be useful in cloud environments. + I have uploaded the signed source package to [3]. I had Jamie + Strandboge review the package, and he's agreed to upload. + I would have had this in yesterday (before Feature Freeze) but I just ran out of time at the end. - -- [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/cloud-server-n-cloud-images [2] http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/server/natty/current/ovf/ + [3] http://people.canonical.com/~smoser/cloud-initramfs-tools/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/725127 Title: FFE: add 'cloud-initramfs-tools' package and cloud-utils update -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
