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Description of problem:
According to bug 1064970 comment 5 cloud-utils-growpart provides everything that is needed to resize partitions on RHEL 7 guest images.
Thus dracut-modules-growroot can be dropped from the image.

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Seems we don't have rhel7 builds for dracut-modules-growroot and rhel-guest-image-7 never use dracut-modules-growroot before.

We could remove dracut-modules-growroot from our rhel-guest-image-6 builds, i tried that cloud-utils-growpart could take over everything.

cloud-utils-growpart does not expand the root filesystem on its own on EL6.

Dropping this package was tested, and prevents the filesystem from resizing correctly.

cloud-utils-growpart does not expand the filesystem on its own in EL7 either. You have to use cloud-init which does not work well in environments like vmware because it's expecting a metadata url to be available and takes 5-10 min to start the OS.