I'm trying to resize a partition using parted, but it has no the 'resize' command available
gchain@archbogchain@archbook:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 3.1
Using /dev/sdb
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) help
align-check TYPE N check partition N for TYPE(min|opt) alignment
help [COMMAND] print general help, or help on COMMAND
mklabel,mktable LABEL-TYPE create a new disklabel (partition table)
mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END make a partition
name NUMBER NAME name partition NUMBER as NAME
print [devices|free|list,all|NUMBER] display the partition table, available devices, free space, all found partitions, or a
particular partition
quit exit program
rescue START END rescue a lost partition near START and END
rm NUMBER delete partition NUMBER
select DEVICE choose the device to edit
disk_set FLAG STATE change the FLAG on selected device
disk_toggle [FLAG] toggle the state of FLAG on selected device
set NUMBER FLAG STATE change the FLAG on partition NUMBER
toggle [NUMBER [FLAG]] toggle the state of FLAG on partition NUMBER
unit UNIT set the default unit to UNIT
version display the version number and copyright information of GNU Parted
I'm using Archlinux x86_64, is this normal ?
Thanks !
7 Answers
Yes, it is normal.
From the GNU site:
Note that after version 2.4, the following commands were removed: check, cp,
mkfs, mkpartfs, move, resize.
Most modern OSes now include the CHUI version of parted 3.2 which has resizepart instead:
(parted) resizepart 2 100%
You should find it in your package manager.
Came across your question while trying to find a solution for a similar problem. I managed to resize my partition (and filesystem) and while I'm not sure if it's still relevant for you, I've documented my solution in a gist which might help out.
It boils down to not having the partion you want to resize mounted, resizing the partition to take up free continuous space on the disk by deleting and then recreating it and then running resize2fs to resize the filesystem as well.
I managed to perform this using sfdisk and then a filesystem resize. See this for sfdisk usage example.
You need to updating Parted to version 3.1-29.
You will need parted 3.2. I had to compile it from source (on CentOS 6).
You can find resizepart as independient command. You can invoque it with this sintax: resizepart /dev/sdx #partnumber newsizeinblock
