Question
Permission denied to resize filesystem
- Posted on May 15, 2020
- UbuntuUbuntu 16.04
Asked by Tony D'Angelo
As described in the doc page I tried to resize my droplet running Ubuntu 16
root@ubuntu:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
I resized from:
- 15$ 1vcpu 3gb ram 60gb disk to
- 20$ 2vcpu 4gb ram 80gb disk
So I turned off the droplet, launched resize and turned back on.
Then I run df -h and I don’t see 80gb but 60gb.
root@ubuntu:~# df -Th /dev/vda1
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1 ext4 58G 25G 34G 43% /
So as described in the doc page I tried to resize the disk checking that i use ext4:
root@ubuntu:~# gdisk -l /dev/vda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/vda: 167772160 sectors, 80.0 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 18451246-590F-4CCF-88A0-81943A03E074
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 167772126
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 227328 167772126 79.9 GiB 8300
14 2048 10239 4.0 MiB EF02
15 10240 227327 106.0 MiB 0700
But the partition is not resized:
root@ubuntu:~# df -Th /dev/vda1
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1 ext4 58G 25G 34G 43% /
When I do:
root@ubuntu:~# growpart /dev/vda 1
NOCHANGE: partition 1 is size 167544799. it cannot be grown
or:
root@ubuntu:~# resize2fs /dev/vda1
resize2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
Filesystem at /dev/vda1 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old_desc_blocks = 4, new_desc_blocks = 5
resize2fs: Permission denied to resize filesystem
I have no luck and I can’t expand the disk.
any help?
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Hi @alexdo,
thank you for your message.
I did follow the documentation, and my main problem is that I’m trying to resize the partition where my root folder is mounted
/So when I run:
I can’t unmount my root folder.
Hello, @tonydangelo123
What you can do is to first run a file system check for the partition and then resize the file system. You can check if everything is okay with this command:
and then run the resize command:
You can also check our official documentation for resizing droplets:
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/resize/
Let me know how it goes.
Regards, Alex