Extending partition with growpart ends up with the message saying "no tools available to resize disk with 'gpt'".

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Issue

Extending partition with growpart ends up with the message saying "no tools available to resize disk with 'gpt'".

[root@localhost ~]# growpart /dev/sda 1
no tools available to resize disk with 'gpt'
FAILED: failed to get a resizer for id ''

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • cloud-utils-growpart

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