Resize xfs partition without LVM

2 min readSep 7, 2020

I just resized XFS partition size of Oracle Linux 7 running on Vmware. It was /dev/sdh1 without lvm. Adding just 10 GB to demonstrate how to do it.

This is the current situation:

# gdisk -l /dev/sdhGPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: presentFound valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sdh: 8610906112 sectors, 4.0 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): E4AD0C09-4AA1-4419-B5FF-D3CC55F1825A
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 8610906078
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2015 sectors (1007.5 KiB)Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name1            2048      8610906077   4.0 TiB     8300  Linux filesystem

First install growpart package.

# yum install cloud-utils-growpart -y

Increase disk size on Vmware.

Then rescan devices for disk size change. Replace sdh with your own disk.

echo 1 > /sys/class/block/sdh/device/rescan

Check dmesg output to see capacity change

# dmesg |grep sdh
[10494469.408338] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdh] 8610906112 512-byte logical blocks: (4.40 TB/4.00 TiB)
[10494469.408516] sdh: detected capacity change from 4398046511104 to 4408783929344

Time to run growpart to resize partition size

# growpart /dev/sdh 1  
CHANGED: partition=1 start=2048 old: size=8589932511 end=8589934559 new: size=8610904030 end=8610906078

This change is not visible to the file system. To grow the file system run xfs_growfs

#   xfs_growfs  /dev/sdh1

meta-data=/dev/sdh1              isize=256    agcount=17, agsize=67108800 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1
         =                       crc=0        finobt=0 spinodes=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=1073741563, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=131071, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
data blocks changed from 1073741563 to 1076363003

And check it with df -h

# df -h /dev/sdh1
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdh1       4.1T  4.0T   11G 100% /data

That’s all.

Resize xfs partition without LVM

Written by ismail yenigül