First off, check the status of the / partition that we want to give
more space:
# df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 144G 70G 67G 52% /
We've then expanded the disk on the hosting platform (Linode, AWS, KVM++) and want to make use of that extra space. For this, we use the partition tool GNU Parted:
# parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p
Warning: Not all of the space available to /dev/sda appears to be used, you can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra 734003200 blocks) or continue with the current setting?
Fix/Ignore? Fix
Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 537GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 2097kB 1049kB bios_grub
2 2097kB 1076MB 1074MB ext4
3 1076MB 3223MB 2147MB linux-swap(v1)
4 3223MB 161GB 158GB ext4
(parted) resizepart 4
Warning: Partition /dev/sda4 is being used. Are you sure you want to continue?
Yes/No? yes
End? [161GB]? 537GB
Now we can ask parted to print the new partition table to verify
it's what we'd expect it to be:
(parted) p
Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 537GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 2097kB 1049kB bios_grub
2 2097kB 1076MB 1074MB ext4
3 1076MB 3223MB 2147MB linux-swap(v1)
4 3223MB 537GB 534GB ext4
(parted) q
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.
Resize the file system to use the new space
# df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 144G 70G 67G 52% /
Then resize it:
# resize2fs /dev/sda4
resize2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
Filesystem at /dev/sda4 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old_desc_blocks = 19, new_desc_blocks = 63
The filesystem on /dev/sda4 is now 130285051 (4k) blocks long.
Now, verify that the space is actually used as intended:
# df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 489G 70G 397G 15% /
Now that's a much larger disk!
Checking /etc/fstab
# cat /etc/fstab
UUID=86935d45-9ba5-11e8-877f-0050569be994 none swap sw 0 0
UUID=87b2c106-9ba5-11e8-877f-0050569be994 / ext4 defaults 0 0
UUID=86935d44-9ba5-11e8-877f-0050569be994 /boot ext4 defaults 0 0
Verify that the UUID of the / partition that we resized somehow hasn't changed:
# blkid | grep sda4
/dev/sda4: UUID="87b2c106-9ba5-11e8-877f-0050569be994" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="09fa4b97-c549-44d6-b498-a3117264b445"
As you can see, the UUID corresponds to what it's in /etc/fstab.
