Manual: growpart

growpart(1)						 cloud-utils						 growpart(1)

NAME
       growpart - extend a partition in a partition table to fill available space

SYNOPSIS
       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

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 de‐
	      fault 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)

DESCRIPTION
       Rewrite a partition table in a disk or disk image so that the given partition takes up as much space as it can.	 Af‐
       ter 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.

AUTHOR
       This  manpage was written by Scott Moser  for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others).	Per‐
       mission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
       Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the  GNU	 General  Public  License  can	be  found  in  /usr/share/common-li‐
       censes/GPL.

cloud-utils						 25 Feb 2011						 growpart(1)