Description

This Chef cookbook resizes the file system automatically when the underlying partition or disk increases its size.

It is mainly oriented to work with cloud or virtual servers where it is common to change the disk size.

Requirements

Platform Requirements

This cookbook has been tested on the following platforms:

• Amazon (>= 2012.03)
• CentOS (>= 6.0)
• Debian (>= 7.0)
• Fedora
• RedHat
• Ubuntu (>= 12.04)

Please, let us know if you use it successfully on any other platform.

Application Requirements

• Ruby 1.9.3 or higher.

The other required applications usually come with the operating system:

• lsblk, findmnt and losetup: included inside util-linux (≥ 2.19) package.
• pgrep: included inside procps-ng package.
• e2fsck, dumpe2fs and resize2fs for ext3 and ext4: included inside e2fsprogs package.
• xfs_info and xfs_growfs for XFS: included inside xfsprogs package.

Attributes

<table>
<tr>
<th>Attribute</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>node['filesystem_resize']['compiletime']</code></td>
<td>Resize the file systems at compile time.</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
</tr>
</table>

Recipes

filesystem_resize::default

Resize mounted file systems.

Usage

Including in a Cookbook Recipe

You can simply include it in a recipe:

# in your recipe
include_recipe 'filesystem_resize'

Don't forget to include the filesystem_resize cookbook as a dependency in the metadata:

# metadata.rb
depends 'filesystem_resize'

Including in the Run List

Another alternative is to include it in your Run List:

{
  "name": "app001.onddo.com",
  [...]
  "run_list": [
    [...]
    "recipe[filesystem_resize]"
  ]
}

Testing

See TESTING.md.

Contributing

Please do not hesitate to open an issue with any questions or problems.

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

TODO

See TODO.md.

License and Author

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.