Thanks Andreas, Device has only one partition, I also ran partprobe post growpart but still no luck :( # grep sdd1 /proc/partitions 8 49 173013999 sdd1 Thanks, Alok On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 12:59 AM Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jul 2, 2020, at 13:18, Alok Jain <jain.alok103@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi Experts, > > > > I want to grow the ext4 file system on mounted device by running > > resize2fs utility but it fails, same works in case of unmounted FS > > with additional invocation of e2fsck utility. > > > > This is what i am doing > > > > 1)Rescanning the device > > echo "1" | sudo tee /sys/block/sdd/device/rescan > > 2) Extending the partition > > growpart /dev/sdd 1 > > 3) resizing the file system > > resize2fs /dev/sdd1 > > resize2fs 1.43-WIP (20-Jun-2013) > > The filesystem is already 43253499 blocks long. Nothing to do! > > What does "grep sdd1 /proc/partitions" show? Is the kernel > aware of the larger partition size? > > > parted -s /dev/sdd1 print free > > Model: Unknown (unknown) > > Disk /dev/sdd1: 177GB > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B > > Partition Table: loop > > > > Number Start End Size File system Flags > > 1 0.00B 177GB 177GB ext4 > > > > Any help? > > > > Thanks, > > Alok
