1.
Create a new EBS volume
2. Attach amiroot and myroot volumes to the auxiliary instance
3. Verify the attached volumes are recognized by the auxiliary
instance
@ip-172-31-17-107:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
xvda 202:0 0 8G 0 disk
└─xvda1 202:1 0 8G 0 part /
xvdf 202:80 0 8G 0 disk
└─xvdf1 202:81 0 8G 0 part
xvdg 202:96 0 100G 0 disk
4. Create custom partition scheme on myroot volume
~# parted /dev/xvdg
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/xvdg
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) mkpart bbp 1MB 2MB
(parted) set 1 bios_grub on
(parted) mkpart root xfs 2MB 20%
(parted) mkpart swap linux-swap 20% 25%
(parted) mkpart home xfs 25% 30%
(parted) mkpart usr xfs 30% 65%
(parted) mkpart var xfs 65% 100%
Once created, the partition table should look like this:
(parted) unit GiB
(parted) p
Model: Xen Virtual Block Device (xvd)
Disk /dev/xvdg: 6.00GiB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 0.00GiB 0.00GiB 0.00GiB bbp bios_grub
2 0.00GiB 1.20GiB 1.20GiB root
3 1.20GiB 1.50GiB 0.30GiB linux-swap(v1) swap
4 1.50GiB 1.80GiB 0.30GiB ext4 home
5 1.80GiB 3.90GiB 2.10GiB ext4 usr
6 3.90GiB 6.00GiB 2.10GiB ext4 var
check if all partitions are optimally aligned according to the disk geometry
(parted) align-check optimal 1
1 aligned
(parted) align-check optimal 2
2 aligned
(parted) align-check optimal 3
3 aligned
(parted) align-check optimal 4
4 aligned
(parted) align-check optimal 5
5 aligned
(parted) align-check optimal 6
6 aligned
When leaving parted it is possible that you receive the following message:
(parted) quit
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.
~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
xvda 202:0 0 8G 0 disk
└─xvda1 202:1 0 8G 0 part /
xvdf 202:80 0 8G 0 disk
└─xvdf1 202:81 0 8G 0 part
xvdg 202:96 0 6G 0 disk
├─xvdg1 202:97 0 1M 0 part
├─xvdg2 202:98 0 1.2G 0 part
├─xvdg3 202:99 0 307M 0 part
├─xvdg4 202:100 0 307M 0 part
├─xvdg5 202:101 0 2.1G 0 part
└─xvdg6 202:102 0 2.1G 0 part
5. Format the new partitions
~# for I in 2 4 5 6; do mkfs.xfs /dev/xvdg${I}; done
...
...
~# mkswap /dev/xvdg3
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 307 MiB (321908736 bytes)
no label, UUID=1aad1fa2-188e-4b7a-8a0f-33f775cdd329
6. Mount partitions
~# mkdir /mnt/amiroot
~# mkdir -p /mnt/myroot/root /mnt/myroot/home /mnt/myroot/usr /mnt/myroot/var
yum install tree -y
~# tree /mnt
/mnt
├── amiroot
└── myroot
├── home
├── root
├── usr
└── var
6 directories, 0 files
~# mount -t xfs -o nouuid /dev/xvdf1 /mnt/amiroot
~# mount /dev/xvdg2 /mnt/myroot/root
~# mount /dev/xvdg4 /mnt/myroot/home
~# mount /dev/xvdg5 /mnt/myroot/usr
~# mount /dev/xvdg6 /mnt/myroot/var
7. Synchronize amiroot contents into its corresponding partition
~# rsync -av /mnt/amiroot/home/ /mnt/myroot/home/
~# rsync -av /mnt/amiroot/usr/ /mnt/myroot/usr/
~# rsync -av /mnt/amiroot/var/ /mnt/myroot/var/
~# rsync -av --exclude=home --exclude=usr --exclude=var /mnt/amiroot/ /mnt/myroot/root/
~# mkdir /mnt/myroot/root/home;chmod 755 /mnt/myroot/root/home
~# mkdir /mnt/myroot/root/usr;chmod 755 /mnt/myroot/root/usr
~# mkdir /mnt/myroot/root/var;chmod 755 /mnt/myroot/root/var
unmount the original amiroot volume single partition and detach it from the
auxiliary instance
~# sync && umount /mnt/amiroot
8. Install grub boot loader on new volume myroot
~# rm /mnt/myroot/root/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
~# grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/myroot/root/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/myroot/root/etc/grub2.cfg
grub2-mkconfig –o /mnt/myroot/root/boot/efi/EFI/amzn/grub.cfg
grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/myroot/root/etc/default/grub
Now you can install the grub boot loader on the new GB disk:
~# grub2-install --target=i386-pc --directory=/mnt/myroot/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc --recheck --boot-directory=/mnt/myroot/root/boot /dev/xvdg
grub2-install --target=i386-pc --directory=/mnt/myroot/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc --recheck --boot-
directory=/mnt/boot /dev/nvme1n1
9. Set new partitions in /etc/fstab file
First it is necessary to obtain partition UUID identifiers using the
blkid command. It is best to run as root because otherwise it
will not display swap related information.
~# blkid
/dev/xvda1: LABEL="cloudimg-rootfs" UUID="567ab888-a3b5-43d4-a92a-f594e8653924" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="1a7d4c6a-01"
/dev/xvdg2: UUID="286a4418-45b4-40c6-aece-6a4e1efd247a" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="root" PARTUUID="56c0cfb6-20eb-4123-a766-420911980fb3"
/dev/xvdg4: UUID="6e244eed-310f-4aae-aaa1-7ef549bbdbd1" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="home" PARTUUID="bdbacb79-532b-410f-853e-f5530c4f9fa7"
/dev/xvdg5: UUID="cceffcdd-1aeb-4aab-b8e0-7ac04893858c" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="usr" PARTUUID="fbee2b01-9d41-4c16-bda6-a4b2abc02a04"
/dev/xvdg6: UUID="b3fe50cb-b147-4b3b-b8ce-17ee445db64c" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="var" PARTUUID="b4983050-a4e6-4d8a-9284-1a269a451d35"
/dev/xvdg3: UUID="1aad1fa2-188e-4b7a-8a0f-33f775cdd329" TYPE="swap" PARTLABEL="swap" PARTUUID="24eecaf3-4942-4ead-bab4-909e359dd5ae"
/dev/xvdg1: PARTLABEL="bbp" PARTUUID="916ca11f-db90-48d1-93d2-de6a99b60f40"
Then move those identifiers to /mnt/myroot/root/etc/fstab file as follows:
UUID=286a4418-45b4-40c6-aece-6a4e1efd247a / ext4 defaults,discard,noatime,errors=remount-ro 01
UUID=6e244eed-310f-4aae-aaa1-7ef549bbdbd1 /home ext4 defaults,noatime,acl,user_xattr,nodev,nosuid 0 2
UUID=cceffcdd-1aeb-4aab-b8e0-7ac04893858c /usr ext4 defaults,noatime,nodev,errors=remount-ro 02
UUID=b3fe50cb-b147-4b3b-b8ce-17ee445db64c /var ext4 defaults,noatime,nodev,nosuid 02
UUID=1aad1fa2-188e-4b7a-8a0f-33f775cdd329 swap swap defaults 00
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nodev,noexec,nosuid,size=256m 0 0
10. Attach the new volume as the root volume of the instance
launched in first place from the AMI
As part of the last step of this procedure, unmount all partitions
previously mounted and detach the myroot volume already
partitioned, configured and bootable from the auxiliary
instance. Then re-attach it to the final instance in which it will
be used, the AMI instance launched at first.
~# sync && umount /mnt/myroot/root /mnt/myroot/home /mnt/myroot/usr /mnt/myroot/var
[April 20, 2022, 11:46 AM] Kariuki, Peter: sudo dd if=/dev/xvda1 of=/dev/xvdf1
status=progress
[April 20, 2022, 12:04 PM] Kariuki, Peter: lsblk
[April 20, 2022, 12:05 PM] Kariuki, Peter: mount -o nouuid /dev/xvdf1 /mnt
[April 20, 2022, 12:06 PM] Kariuki, Peter: grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
[April 20, 2022, 12:09 PM] Kariuki, Peter: grub2-install --target=i386-pc
--directory=/mnt/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc --recheck --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/xvdf
[April 20, 2022, 1:24 PM] ‹Nagendra Sahni›: i-04609dd872588fff6
[April 20, 2022, 1:31 PM] Kariuki, Peter: A start job is running for dev-
mapp...2dlv_usr.device (36s / 1min 30s
