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

Related terms

• resize2fs

/proc/partitions
kpartx
fdisk -l

See also

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