growpart − extend a partition in a partition table to fill available space
growpart [OPTIONS] DISK PARTITION−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
-h | --help
Show usage and exit
-N | --dry-run
Only report what would be done
--fudge COUNT
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.
|
DISK |
The device or disk image to operate on |
PARTITION−NUMBER
The number of the partition to resize (counting from 1)
Rewrite a the 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.
Extend
partition 1 in /dev/sda to fill empty space until end of
disk or
next partitiong
growpart /dev/sda 1
Extend partition 2 in disk image my.image.
growpart my.image 2
The exit status is 0 if the partition was sucessfully 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 occured.
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