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Bug 1393152

Summary:	Incorrect recommendation re online resize of disk partitions in RHEL 7 Storage Administration Guide
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	brosser
Component:	doc-Storage_Administration_Guide	Assignee:	Marek Suchánek <msuchane>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	7.0	CC:	brosser, jpittman, kzak, lczerner, msuchane, rhel-docs, tcleveng
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Documentation
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Last Closed:	2017-09-06 13:30:22 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1425467, 1488849

Description brosser 2016-11-09 01:33:09 UTC

Document URL: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/ch-partitions.html

Section Number and Name: Chapter 12.  Partitions

Describe the issue: Customer is finding conflicting information with the following statement:

"If you want to remove or resize a partition, the device on which that partition resides must not be in use. Creating a new partition on a device which is in use—while possible—is not recommended."

and this statment found in KCS article "Does RHEL 7 support online resize of disk partitions?" (https://access.redhat.com/solutions/199573):

"As to older style partitions, this feature has been added in RHEL 7 current release with a feature request(RFE has been filed to add support for online resize of disk partitions to RHEL 7 in private Red Hat Bugzilla 853105). With this feature, it's possible to resize the disk partitions online in RHEL 7."

Suggestions for improvement: Customer requesting that update be made to document acknowledging in what RHEL releases that this applies to.  

Additional information: Customer is an instructor that uses this guide as a course text, and would like to have documentation updated for consistency as many of these resources are provided to students for reference.  Please reference salesforce case 01729281.