[18:52] <cornfeedhobo> hello, i am in desperate need of help; i am tired of uploading failed images
[18:52] <cornfeedhobo> i am building a lvm+xfs centos7 machine, and cloud-init won't grow the root filesystem no matter what i try
[18:53] <cornfeedhobo> i have make sure growpart is available and lvm + xfs tools
[18:53] <cornfeedhobo> made*
[19:15] <smoser> growpart does not work on lvm devices.
[19:16] <smoser> natorious, thought he might add taht support, or might have another solution for you.
[19:16] <smoser> cornfeedhobo, ^
[19:20] <cornfeedhobo> that explains alot
[19:39] <cornfeedhobo> you would think lvm support would be more demanded. it makes dealing with a few things much better
[20:08] <cornfeedhobo> natorious: i would be interested in hearing what you would suggest
[20:40] <smoser> cornfeedhobo, i am becomming more interested in it.
[20:40] <smoser> but largely lvm is not that improtant in "cloud" . stricktly because yoru OS disk is just easilyi small and ptu other things on other disks.
[20:44] <cornfeedhobo> well, for example, resizing
[20:45] <cornfeedhobo> without lvm on aws, you must stop, detach. snapshot. relauch as larger. resize.
[20:45] <cornfeedhobo> with, you just create a new volume, attach, add to lvm, resize
[20:45] <cornfeedhobo> its a bit like a jbod then, but no downtime
[20:46] <smoser> ok. the response woudl be that you should not do that on your OS disk
[20:46] <smoser> that make sense ? i do see the value, and woudl accept patches to cloud-init or growpart.
[20:47] <smoser> but just keep your data on an ebs volume that you make an lvm on
[20:47] <smoser> and keep your os disk small and OS only.
[20:49] <cornfeedhobo> hmmm
[20:51] <cornfeedhobo> ya there is some logic to that, isn't there
[20:57] <cornfeedhobo> smoser: i'll brb. i also had a plan ext4 image that wasn't expanding also, but i think i know what that problem was. should be back around in about an hour and a half