Extending sda Partition With Growpart Utility Fails With Error "no tools available to resize disk"
in Linux
APPLIES TO:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - CentOS 7
Linux x86-64
SYMPTOMS
Extending sda3 partition with growpart utility Fails with Error in Centos 7 OCI instance
[root@xxxx ~]# growpart /dev/sda 3
no tools available to resize disk with 'gpt'
FAILED: failed to get a resizer for id ''
CHANGES
Extending Root Partition sda3
CAUSE
Missing gdisk package, Both cloud-utils-growpart and gdisk is required for extending the partition using growpart utility.
$ [root@xxxxxxx ~]# rpm -qa | grep gdisk
SOLUTION
As per the error message gdisk package was not installed on the system, which is required for gpt partition management.
Installing the gdisk package fixed the problem
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