Resizing partitions Why the fuck is there no one that can tell you how tf it works? How to do it Preperations You need to be in a rescue system or have the disk unmounted. That is non negotiable! Also make a snapshot/backup of you system! Resizing e2fsck -f /dev/sdXY resize2fs /dev/sdXY XG fdisk /dev/sdX In fdisk you need to: Delete the old partition (d) Recreate it (n) Use +XG to resize it to the GB amount you choose when using resize2fs Write it (w) Now you should have a working partition that is resized to the amount you wanted. How to online grow a ext4 partition This tutorial uses Arch Linux so package names might vary Install cloud-guest-utils which includes growpart Backup your partition table so you can recover if needed sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sda > partition_bak.dmp Use growpart to grow the partition growpart /dev/sda 2 Use resize2fs to grow your filesystem resize2fs /dev/sda2 Now you should have a ext4 partition that spans the entire rest of your drive.