Merge pull request #211 from zmarano/upstream

Add package for EL7 disk expand.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/disk-expand/README.md b/disk-expand/README.md
index 51b14c6..d93917d 100644
--- a/disk-expand/README.md
+++ b/disk-expand/README.md
@@ -4,23 +4,19 @@ This package is intended to expand the root partition up to 2TB on a GCE VM. It
 consists of several scripts from other packages that for various reasons are not
 maintained by the distros; cloud-utils-growpart, dracut-modules-growroot, and an
 upstream version of the growpart script. See below for details. This package is
-being provided on an experimental basis for GCE CentOS and RHEL 6 images only.
+being provided on an experimental basis for GCE CentOS and RHEL images only.
 
 ### Build the package
 
 A script to build the package is provided for convenience.
 `./build_package.sh /OUTPUT_DIR` will yield an rpm and an srpm in the
-defined output directory.
+defined output directory for EL6 and EL7.
 
 ### Package usage
 
-1. Update to the latest packages and reboot. If there is a kernel update,
-   you need to be running the new kernel for dracut to update it properly.
-   Alternativley, if there is not a kernel update you can just install the
-   gce-disk-expand package in the next step.
-   `yum -y update ; reboot`
-1. Install the gce-disk-expand package with yum and reboot:
-   `yum -y install /PATH_TO/gce-disk-expand-el6-VER-DATE.x86_64.rpm ; reboot`
+Install the gce-disk-expand package for your distro with yum and reboot:
+   CentOS/RHEL 6: `yum -y install /PATH_TO/gce-disk-expand-el6-VER-DATE.x86_64.rpm ; reboot`
+   CentOS/RHEL 7: 'yum -y install /PATH_TO/gce-disk-expand-el7-VER-DATE.x86_64.rpm ; reboot`
 
 Your root partition will now be expanded to the full size of your disk up to
 2TB.
@@ -38,15 +34,17 @@ further upstream releases of this script. It is therefore not recommended that
 you try to use the [0.27 growpart package](http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/epel/6/x86_64/cloud-utils-growpart-0.27-10.el6.x86_64.html)
 from the EPEL repo.
 
-#### Dracut modules
+#### Dracut module for EL6
 
 The dracut module is taken from the [dracut-modules-growroot](http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/epel/6/x86_64/dracut-modules-growroot-0.20-2.el6.noarch.html)
 package in the EPEL 6 repo. The dracut module allows the partition table to be
-expanded on boot before / is mounted and prevents an additional reboot.
+expanded on boot before / is mounted and prevents an additional reboot in CentOS
+and RHEL 6. CentOS and RHEL 7 support live partition resizing by the kernel and
+do not need the dracut module.
 
-#### The expand-root init.d script
+#### The expand-root script
 
-The expand-root init.d script is derived from the
+The expand-root script is derived from the
 [bootstrap-vz version](https://github.com/andsens/bootstrap-vz/blob/c682dab6ec51767b6e529c1589c5630f6295953a/bootstrapvz/common/assets/init.d/expand-root)
 of this script used for Debian instances. Essentially, it just calls the proper
 filesystem expansion utility to live resize the filesystem on first boot. The