How To Install cloud-utils-growpart on CentOS 8

cloud-utils-growpart is Script for growing a partition

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cloud-utils-growpart on CentOS 8.

What is cloud-utils-growpart

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.

We can use yum or dnf to install cloud-utils-growpart on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cloud-utils-growpart.

Install cloud-utils-growpart on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cloud-utils-growpart using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cloud-utils-growpart

Install cloud-utils-growpart on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cloud-utils-growpart using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cloud-utils-growpart

How To Uninstall cloud-utils-growpart on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cloud-utils-growpart package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cloud-utils-growpart

cloud-utils-growpart Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/growpart
/usr/share/doc/cloud-utils-growpart
/usr/share/doc/cloud-utils-growpart/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cloud-utils-growpart/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/growpart.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cloud-utils-growpart on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.