[systemd-devel] How to use systemd-growfs* services with GPT automount

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mo, 23.10.23 02:00, Nils Kattenbeck (nilskemail at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am not sure how to get systemd-growfs-root.service to work with
> automount. The partitions are configured via systemd-repart (and the
> image created using mkosi). While the partitions are correctly grown
> upon boot, the contained filesystem is not grown to match the
> partition even though GrowFileSystem defaults to true. Is there
> anything I am missing or an easy way to troubleshoot this and get more
> information?
>
> One thing I notice is that the generator.late/-.mount unit has a
> Options=ro which as per documentation prevents growing the filesystem.
> However, the filesystem is actually mounted read-write so I assume
> this is just an artifact of the initrd. Is it not possible to grow the
> filesystem from which the initrd starts?

Do you have "ro" or "rw" on the kernel cmdline?

Lennart

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