# Systemd-growfs resize to 128M only
**URL:** https://hub.mender.io/t/systemd-growfs-resize-to-128m-only/1446
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [January 17, 2020, 11:10am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/systemd-growfs-resize-to-128m-only/1446 "2020-01-17T11:10:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@MarekBelisko](https://hub.mender.io/u/MarekBelisko)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2020, 11:10am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/systemd-growfs-resize-to-128m-only/1446/1 "2020-01-17T11:10:18Z")
Hi,
I’m using systemd-growfs feature to grow data to end of SDcard. I’m on warrior branch but only define:
```auto
MENDER_DATA_PART_FSTAB_OPTS_append = ",x-systemd.growfs"
```
and it looks like service is started but report only this:
```auto
Sep 23 18:47:19 a33-som-m80 systemd[1]: Starting Grow File System on /data...
Sep 23 18:47:19 a33-som-m80 systemd-growfs[230]: Successfully resized "/data" to 128.0M bytes (131072 blocks of 1024 bytes).
Sep 23 18:47:19 a33-som-m80 systemd[1]: Started Grow File System on /data.
```
I didn’t change data partition size. It’s even weird that fdisk report that card have 15G but for some reason growfs code check only size of partition. Am I missing something here? Define data part size to 10G or so? Confused 😕
Thanks
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### Author:  [@mirzak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mirzak)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2020, 11:23am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/systemd-growfs-resize-to-128m-only/1446/2 "2020-01-17T11:23:35Z")
You should add,
```auto
MENDER_FEATURES_ENABLE_append = "mender-growfs-data"
```
Otherwise you will not get this, which will resize the underlying block device before resizing the filesystem image.
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### Author:  [@MarekBelisko](https://hub.mender.io/u/MarekBelisko)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/systemd-growfs-resize-to-128m-only/1446/3 "2020-01-17T11:36:41Z")
@mirzak thanks I see it now. Was looking down to thread [here](https://tracker.mender.io/browse/MEN-2337?focusedCommentId=99241&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel) where it was discussed I had feeling nothing else is necessary (adding extra systemd script) but didn’t read till end. I realized I’m on thud not warrior so need to work on it other way. Thanks for pointers.
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### Author:  [@mkozjak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mkozjak)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2020, 7:08am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/systemd-growfs-resize-to-128m-only/1446/4 "2020-04-02T07:08:20Z")
Hey, Marek, maybe you found a suitable solution for a pre-242 systemd to grow data partition and fs on initial boot?
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### Author:  [@oleorhagen](https://hub.mender.io/u/oleorhagen)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2020, 7:54am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/systemd-growfs-resize-to-128m-only/1446/5 "2020-04-02T07:54:41Z")
Hi @mkozjak, it is possible to create a manual systemd script, similar to what is done here, and use parted to resize your partition on boot.
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### Author:  [@mirzak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mirzak)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/systemd-growfs-resize-to-128m-only/1446/6 "2020-04-02T07:57:18Z")
Additionally in the simplest form (without relying on the systemd growfs feature) you can run:
```bash
# Resizes partition
parted --script /dev/mmcblk0 resizepart 4 100%
# Resizes filesystem
resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p4
```
So it is a matter of putting something similar to above in a script that runs on boot.
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### Author:  [@mkozjak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mkozjak)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/systemd-growfs-resize-to-128m-only/1446/7 "2020-04-02T08:20:30Z")
Thank you so much, guys!