cloud-utils-growpart could not growpart over 2TB gpt disk

Solution Verified - Updated 2024-06-14T12:57:58+00:00 -

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Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
• cloud-utils-growpart-0.29-2

Issue

We ran into an issue when trying to resize a > 2TB disk with cloud-utils-growpart.

Resolution

• Update the package to cloud-utils-growpart-0.29-2.el7_6.2 shipped with Advisory RHBA-2019:1900 or later.

Root Cause

Previously, when resizing a disk larger than 2TB, cloud-utils-growpart failed due to data inconsistency. This update adds a check that prevents this inconsistency.

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