Bug#813493: cloud.debian.org: [AWS] Debian Jessie 8.1 images lack root partition grow
Hi Zied,
On 2 February 2016 at 12:03, Zied ABID <zied+debian@abid.tn> wrote:
> Package: cloud.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> Tags: newcomer
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>
> * What led up to the situation?
> Create new instance from one of the official Debian Jessie 8.1 images
> (https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Jessie)
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
> Create instance with a volume other than the default size (8GB), say 30GB.
> * What was the outcome of this action?
> Root partition still at size 8GB in front of 30GB (EBS) volume size.
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
> Root partition should be resized as same as (EBS) volume.
>
>
> This bug is reproducible in at least 2 tested images (in eu-west-1 and
> us-west-1)
> This bug affect only Jessie 8.1 images, Wheezy images looks fine.
>
> As a work-around, installing cloud-initramfs-growroot package resolve the issue
> for installed instances (after reboot) or for new instances created from nested
> image.
This is a known issue, which is related to #784004[1]. We are already
tackling it on threads[2][3] at the "debian-cloud" mailing list.
> PS: If you consider this issue as a bug, I'm available to reproduce, test and
> validate new AWS images. I'm already looking at Anders Ingemann's bootstrap-vz
> work to find-out how to suggest a patch, but I'm not sure that I'm on the right
> path.
Patches[4][5] were suggested to bootstrap-vz and the most recent one
was merged. What happened is, AFAICT, there were no newer EC2 images
generate using those fixes.
Regards,
Tiago.
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784004
[2]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2016/01/msg00035.html
[3]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2016/01/msg00056.html
[4]: https://github.com/andsens/bootstrap-vz/pull/239
[5]: https://github.com/andsens/bootstrap-vz/pull/269
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