growpart1
Extend a partition in a partition table to fill available space
Usage
growpart [OPTIONS]
DISK
PARTITION-NUMBER
growpart partition
rewrite partition
table
so
that
partition
takes
up
all
the
space
it
can
Options
-
-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.
Arguments
DISK
|
The device or disk image to operate on |
|---|---|
PARTITION-NUMBER
|
The number of the partition to resize (counting from 1) |
Overview
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.
Releases
7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 1 time.
--ramdisk until Debian 8 (Jessie);
-r until Debian 8 (Jessie).