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Automate expanding a mounted partition
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expand_mounted_partition
#!/bin/bash
dir=$1
device=$2
partition=$3
start=$4
end=$5
umount /$dir
parted /dev/$device <<EOF
rm $partition
mkpart primary $start $end
quit
EOF
xfs_repair /dev/$device$partition
mount /dev/$device$partition /$dir
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Using the CIS RHEL base image in AWS to expand /tmp to new EBS volume size
/tmp is mounted on xvdj1 which starts at 1049kb.
expand_mounted_partition tmp xvdj 1 1 100%

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