Question: 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 3.1Using /dev/sdbWelcome 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 !
Answer: 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.