# growpart - extend a partition in a partition table to fill availa... - man(1) - [phpMan]

> **TLDR:** Extend a partition in a disk or disk image to fill available space.
>
- 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}}`

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## 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 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)


## 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.



## AUTHOR
       This manpage was written by Scott Moser <<smoser@canonical.com>> for Ubuntu systems (but may be
       used by others).  Permission 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 Founda‐
       tion.

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

cloud-utils                                  25 Feb 2011                                 [_growpart_(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/growpart/1/markdown)