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# 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 --dry-run {{/path/to/disk.img}} {{n}}`