# Resizing rootfs on a live system **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [September 24, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/resizing-rootfs-on-a-live-system/4115 "2021-09-24T17:53:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![dellgreen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/dellgreen/32/85_2.png) [@dellgreen](https://hub.mender.io/u/dellgreen)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/resizing-rootfs-on-a-live-system/4115/2 "2021-09-24T21:24:55Z")
If growfs option is configured and the data partition is the last parition then its should grow to fill the remaining space of your drive if any exists. > [@Large persistent data partition without large image file](https://hub.mender.io/t/large-persistent-data-partition-without-large-image-file/4044): > > Hi. I’m just getting started with mender and try to convert the installation of a x64 host. For that I followed [INTEL NUC x86-64 Ubuntu 18.04](https://hub.mender.io/t/intel-nuc-x86-64-ubuntu-18-04/2214) with a few small changes. My main difference is that I use a 256GB SSD onto which I would like to have the following partition table. 512MB boot/EFI partition 20GB rootfs A partition 20GB rootfs B partition ~200GB data partition I used the docker-mender-convert script to generate an image with this setup, but was surprised that I actually had to cr… [https://docs.mender.io/system-updates-debian-family/variables#mender\_data\_part\_growfs](https://docs.mender.io/system-updates-debian-family/variables#mender_data_part_growfs) --- _[View the full topic](https://hub.mender.io/t/resizing-rootfs-on-a-live-system/4115)._