Hello, Thank you for your answers, Effectively I did'nt see this point ... I must now think about it ... I hope that "copy ganlance image to cinder bootable volume" will answer to this probleme.
That's because in our hand made cloud, we use cobbler/kickstart to deploy every VM ... so no resize needed during the installation. Regards, 2013/1/30 Juerg Haefliger <jue...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Benoit ML <ben4...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I' new in openstack world (but not in virtualisation/cloud) and I'm >> asking myself (and you ;) ) what's the objective and interest to >> resize disk at boot time ? > > Cloud images are usually built as small as possible. For example the > Ubuntu images are 2 GB in size. When an instance is launched, Nova > resizes the image file according to the instance flavor selected (for > example 10 GB for a small instance, 100 GB for an X large instance, > aso). It is then up to the guest to make use of that additional disk > space. One approach is to have a script the initramfs that enlarges > the root partition to the max available size, ideally consuming the > whole disk. Later in the boot process, cloud-init runs and > online-resizes the root filesystem. Thus you end up with an instance > with a root filesystem that consumes the whole disk. > > ...Juerg > > > >> Thank you in advance. >> >> Regards, >> >> 2013/1/29 Juerg Haefliger <jue...@gmail.com>: >>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: >>>> On 01/29/2013 01:08 PM, JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your replies!! >>>>> >>>>> Has anyone tried to resize root disk of Centos/Fedora instances with >>>>> cloud-init? >>> >>> I assume you're referring to resizing the root partition? >>> >>>> >>>> Juerg Haefliger is working on cloud-utils and cloud-initramfs-tools >>>> packages for Fedora/Red Hat, which support the growroot feature. >>>> He might have some packages for you to test. >>> >>> Yes working on packaging for RHEL and adding support for GPT partition >>> tables for Fedora. I could give you preliminary RHEL6 packages but >>> Fedora is not quite there yet. Let me know. >>> >>> ...Juerg >>> >>>> thanks, >>>> Pádraig. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >>> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> Benoit -- -- Benoit _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
