Growpart

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growpart extend a partition in a partition table to fill available space. It is included in cloud-guest-utils package.

• Man page: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hirsute/man1/growpart.1.html

• growpart --dry-run

growpart disk partition_number 

• growpart /dev/sda 1

growpart /dev/nvme0n1 1
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/tmp/growpart.1357728’: No space left on device
FAILED: failed to make temp dir

 growpart /dev/nvme0n1 1
CHANGED: partition=1 start=227328 old: size=16549855 end=16777183 new: size=133990367 end=134217695

growpart /dev/nvme1n1 1
WARN: unknown label
failed [sfd_dump:1] sfdisk --unit=S --dump /dev/nvme1n1
sfdisk: /dev/nvme1n1: does not contain a recognized partition table
FAILED: failed to dump sfdisk info for /dev/nvme1n1

growpart /dev/root 1
WARN: unknown label
failed [sfd_dump:1] sfdisk --unit=S --dump /dev/root
sfdisk: /dev/root: does not contain a recognized partition table
FAILED: failed to dump sfdisk info for /dev/root
Solution: 
growpart /dev/nvme0n1 1
CHANGED: partition=1 start=227328 old: size=16549855 end=16777182 new: size=104630239 end=104857566

growpart /dev/nvme0n1 1
failed [sfd_list:1] sfdisk --list --unit=S /dev/nvme0n1
FAILED: failed: sfdisk --list /dev/nvme0n1

growpart /dev/nvme0n1p1
/usr/bin/growpart: line 112: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device
must supply partition-number

Related terms

• resize2fs
• /proc/partitions
• kpartx
• fdisk -l

See also

• sfdisk
• Partition, growpart, kpartx, xfs_growfs
• Block, Slot, resize2fs, growpart, blockdev, fstrim, lsblk, Block rate