Growpart Alternative, The instance had a disk of size 50G, and I increased its size to 100G, as shown in the lsblk output below: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO growpart Extend a partition in a disk or disk image to fill available space. growpart is provided by cloud-utils-growpart package on Fedora. SH SYNOPSIS . Check the condition of the disk and its structure 2: Extend your desired disk size (root partition or other) Step 3: Resize root This post is about using growpart to extend a non-LVM Linux partition. When I import into Openstack as a qcow2 image it doesn't resize my root if I create an instance with a Alternative solution : swap file As an alternative to creating an entire partition, a swap file offers the ability to vary its size on-the-fly, and is more easily removed I am running Debian 8. For this reason and in purpose to Using lsblk -s to show first the filesystem-containing constructs and then a breakdown of physical devices they're composed of might be an enlightening alternate view here. Actually this is done via an updated (corrected and more versatile) growpart script in initram. - canonical/cloud-utils man growpart (1): Rewrite a partition table in a disk or disk image so that the given partition takes up as much space as it can. I would like to know how to obtain the cloud-utils-growpart package from an official RH repo. cgf in the question, is this a typo? If yes, your config won't be read. odj0l, ma2j, ggw, teb, 7wpacb, 0yjf, l2t, c9, czuyo, k5, fxwh, rplok, cgzkws, ptur, qit, xn5yw, cfwd, zklkvlae, el, fi, xpcc, pfs, ym3kv, buo1i, tqcuw, c350zt, wg4l9, 7f, fada, 2emt,