New increased disk size not properly updated after partprobe in RHEL 8.5
Issue
- In 8.2-8.3, running partprobe results in resized physical disk in VMware guest properly getting resized allowing pvresize to work.
- In 8.5 running partprobe no longer results in new disk size being properly recognized.
- pvresize fails to resize an expanded disk after partprobe due to disk size in kernel not changed
- expanded disk size not properly detected within kernel
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5
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