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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 !

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    You can first convert it from MBR to a GUID partition table. The process is simple and not prone to errors. The gdisk tool can then resize these partitions. It's in the Arch Linux "extra" repo. When you are done sizing it just right, see this thread: How to Convert GPT back to MBR.
    – zero2cx
    Commented Nov 10, 2012 at 17:34
  • gparted works very well, but you need to be running GUI desktop
    – LatinSuD
    Commented Jul 28, 2016 at 15:24

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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.
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    Why? How should you move a partition?
    – azzid
    Commented Jan 10, 2017 at 20:23
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    absolutely love gparted, but gui apps is not always an option.
    – azzid
    Commented Jan 13, 2017 at 15:13
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    sure, but I'm still curious. Why was the functionality dropped?
    – azzid
    Commented Jan 15, 2017 at 6:59
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    @azzid I would't know about the why of the matter but moving the partition block-by-block would work. It appears to me as if that's now the preferred method. Also, I notice that there have been what were probably many requests for the re-implementation of parted's resizepart. I've checked, and resizepart is available in version 3.2, so there is that.
    – zero2cx
    Commented Jan 15, 2017 at 19:23
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    This is infuriating.
    – Alexander Gonchiy
    Commented Apr 18, 2018 at 8:25
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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.

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  • this is the good answer
    – Reishin
    Commented Nov 27, 2020 at 21:38
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I managed to perform this using sfdisk and then a filesystem resize. See this for sfdisk usage example.

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    This is a very old post and it is better to put as much of the link info into the question as possible in case the link dies in future.
    – Cand3r
    Commented Jul 28, 2016 at 14:51
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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.

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You need to updating Parted to version 3.1-29.

parted-3.1-28 without resizepart

parted-3.1-29 with resizepart

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You will need parted 3.2. I had to compile it from source (on CentOS 6).

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.2.tar.xz

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You can find resizepart as independient command. You can invoque it with this sintax: resizepart /dev/sdx #partnumber newsizeinblock

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  • Despite the name, resizepart does not change the size of partitions. From the man page: "This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device."
    – Deltik
    Commented Aug 6, 2019 at 21:58

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