How To Install cloud-utils-growpart.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cloud-utils-growpart.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. cloud-utils-growpart.noarch is Script for growing a partition

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cloud-utils-growpart.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `cloud-utils-growpart.noarch`

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 to install cloud-utils-growpart.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cloud-utils-growpart.noarch.

Install cloud-utils-growpart.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install cloud-utils-growpart.noarch

How To Uninstall cloud-utils-growpart.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove cloud-utils-growpart.noarch

cloud-utils-growpart.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/growpart
/usr/share/doc/cloud-utils-growpart-0.31
/usr/share/doc/cloud-utils-growpart-0.31/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cloud-utils-growpart-0.31/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/growpart.1.gz

References

cloud-utils-growpart.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cloud-utils-growpart.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.