Information about the package, dracut-modules-growroot, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dracut-modules-growroot package is designed for, Automatically resize the root partition on first boot.
Package Name:
dracut-modules-growroot
Summary:
Automatically resize the root partition on first boot
Description:
This dracut module will re-write the partition table of a disk so that the root partition has as much space as possible, bumping it up to the edge of the disk, or the edge of the next partition.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.20
Release:
2.el6
Size:
20 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3
Control the dracut-modules-growroot package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install dracut-modules-growroot
This command will install dracut-modules-growroot on the server.
yum remove dracut-modules-growroot
This command will un-install dracut-modules-growroot on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dracut-modules-growroot, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove dracut-modules-growroot
This command will un-install dracut-modules-growroot 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 dracut-modules-growroot when using the -y flag.
yum update dracut-modules-growroot
This command will update dracut-modules-growroot to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dracut-modules-growroot, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update dracut-modules-growroot
This command will update dracut-modules-growroot 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 dracut-modules-growroot when using the -y flag.
yum info dracut-modules-growroot
This command will show you core information about the dracut-modules-growroot package.
yum deplist dracut-modules-growroot
This command will show you the dependencies for dracut-modules-growroot. 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 dracut-modules-growroot
This command will check if there is an update waiting on dracut-modules-growroot. 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.