growpart - extend a partition in a partition table to fill available space
Contents
Arguments
DISK The device or disk image to operate on
PARTITION-NUMBER
The number of the partition to resize (counting from 1)
Description
Rewrite a partition table in a disk or disk image so that the given partition takes up as much space as
it can. After running, the partition will end at the end of the disk, or at the beginning of the next
partition.
Examples
Extend partition 1 in /dev/sda to fill empty space until end of disk or next partition
growpart /dev/sda 1
Extend partition 2 in disk image my.image.
growpart my.image 2
Exit Status
The exit status is 0 if the partition was successfully grown or if --dry-run was specified and it could
be grown. The exit status is 1 if the partition could not be grown due to lack of available space. The
exit status is 2 if an error occurred.
Name
growpart - extend a partition in a partition table to fill available space
Options
-h|--help
Show usage and exit
-N|--dry-run
Only report what would be done
--fudgeCOUNT
Only modify partition table if the given partition would grow more than COUNT sectors (512 bytes).
The default value is 20480 indicating that no change will be made unless more than 10M of space
would be gained.
-v|--verbose
Give more information to stderr.
Synopsis
growpart[OPTIONS]DISKPARTITION-NUMBER
growpart partition
rewrite partition table so that partition takes up all the space it can
options:
-h | --help print Usage an exit
--fudge F if part could be resized, but change would be
less than 'F', do not resize (default: 20480)
-N | --dry-run only report what would be done, show new 'sfdisk -d'
-v | --verbose increase verbosity / debug
