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**Point of No Return**: **Point of No Return**:
When you press `w` in both cases of `gdisk` or `fdisk`, then ++enter++ the changes will be written to disk, meaning there is no turning back unless you have full GuestVM backups or a snapshot to rollback with, or something like Veeam Backup & Replication. Be certain the first and last sector values are correctly configured before proceeding. (Default values generally are good for this) When you press `w` in both cases of `gdisk` or `fdisk`, then ++enter++ the changes will be written to disk, meaning there is no turning back unless you have full GuestVM backups or a snapshot to rollback with, or something like Veeam Backup & Replication. Be certain the first and last sector values are correctly configured before proceeding. (Default values generally are good for this)
=== "Using GROWPART (Ubuntu)"
``` sh
echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/class/block/sda/device/rescan
growpart /dev/sda 2
sudo resize2fs /dev/sda2 # Assuming ext4 filesystem, if unsure, run "df -Th"
```
## Detect the New Partition Sizes ## Detect the New Partition Sizes
At this point, the operating system wont detect the changes without a reboot, so we are going to force the operating system to detect them immediately with the following commands to avoid a reboot (if we can avoid it). At this point, the operating system wont detect the changes without a reboot, so we are going to force the operating system to detect them immediately with the following commands to avoid a reboot (if we can avoid it).
``` sh ``` sh