Resize Drive Problem in Centos6 on AWS EC2
To Resize the root partition in Centos 6 machine run the below mentioned Commands:
1. Install EPEL6 Repo
~]# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
or
~]# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
~]# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
2. Install the dracut & cloud-utils growpart modules-growroot
~]# yum install -y dracut-modules-growroot cloud-utils-growpart
or
~]# yum -y --quiet install dracut-modules-growroot
~]# dracut -v --force --add growroot /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img
~]# reboot
3. The initrd needs to be rebuilt after installing the dracut-modules-growroot.
Create a backup copy of the current initramfs:
~]# cp -p /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img.bak
4. Create the initramfs for the current kernel:
~]# dracut -f
5. Result after reboot
~]# reboot