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 Foundation.

       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)