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OCI: Unable to Extend Centos8 Boot Volume Using oci-growfs with Error "No such file or directory"

in Linux

Applies To

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Linux x86-64


Symptoms

After extending the Boot Volume in the OCI Console, an attempt to use the “oci-growfs”, the command to extend the filesystem at the OS level fails with:

$ /usr/libexec/oci-growfs
-bash: /usr/libexec/oci-growfs: No such file or directory


Cause

The “oci-utils” package is not supported on CentOS 8, therefore oci-growfs is not available.


Solution

Refer to the OCI documentation that will explain how to resize the block volume from the OCI Console:

Resizing a Volume Using the Console : https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/Block/Tasks/resizingavolume.htm#console

After completing the Steps to increase the size of the Boot Volume in the OCI Console, a screen similar to the following should be supplied:

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