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growpart — Extend a partition in a disk or disk image to fill available space. More information: <https://githu

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commanddiskextendpartitioncliimagegrowpart

linux

Problem

How to use the growpart command: Extend a partition in a disk or disk image to fill available space. More information: <https://github.com/canonical/cloud-utils>.

Solution

growpart — Extend a partition in a disk or disk image to fill available space. More information: <https://github.com/canonical/cloud-utils>.

Extend partition n from sdX to fill empty space until end of disk or beginning of next partition:

growpart {{/dev/sdX}} {{n}}

Show what modifications would be made when growing partition n in a disk image:

growpart {{[-N|--dry-run]}} /{{path/to/disk.img}} {{n}}

Code Snippets

Extend partition `n` from `sdX` to fill empty space until end of disk or beginning of next partition

growpart {{/dev/sdX}} {{n}}

Show what modifications would be made when growing partition `n` in a disk image

growpart {{[-N|--dry-run]}} /{{path/to/disk.img}} {{n}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/growpart

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