Information about the package, cloud-utils-growpart, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The cloud-utils-growpart package is designed for, Script for growing a partition.
Package Name:
cloud-utils-growpart
Summary:
Script for growing a partition
Description:
This package provides the growpart script for growing a partition. It is primarily used in cloud images in conjunction with the dracut-modules-growroot package to grow the root partition on first boot.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.27
Release:
10.el6
Size:
25 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3
Control the cloud-utils-growpart package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install cloud-utils-growpart
This command will install cloud-utils-growpart on the server.
yum remove cloud-utils-growpart
This command will un-install cloud-utils-growpart on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cloud-utils-growpart, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove cloud-utils-growpart
This command will un-install cloud-utils-growpart on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove cloud-utils-growpart when using the -y flag.
yum update cloud-utils-growpart
This command will update cloud-utils-growpart to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cloud-utils-growpart, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update cloud-utils-growpart
This command will update cloud-utils-growpart to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove cloud-utils-growpart when using the -y flag.
yum info cloud-utils-growpart
This command will show you core information about the cloud-utils-growpart package.
yum deplist cloud-utils-growpart
This command will show you the dependencies for cloud-utils-growpart. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update cloud-utils-growpart
This command will check if there is an update waiting on cloud-utils-growpart. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.