Ali Reza Salimzadeh salimzadeh

Resize root partition (or how to remove the default /home partition) on CentOS 7 online

This requires you to be able to ssh into the instance using the root user account and that no services be running as users out of /home on the target machine.

The examples are from a default installation with no customation-you NEED to know what you're working with for volumes/partitions to not horribly break things.

By default, CentOS 7 uses XFS for the file system and Logical Volume Manager (LVM), creating 3 partitions: /,/home and

Step 1 - Copy /home Contents

To backup the contents of /home, do the following:

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