diff --git a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
index 2d774bc19579..ebf784fee58b 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
@@ -331,6 +331,7 @@ in {
   graphite = handleTest ./graphite.nix {};
   graylog = handleTest ./graylog.nix {};
   grocy = handleTest ./grocy.nix {};
+  grow-partition = runTest ./grow-partition.nix;
   grub = handleTest ./grub.nix {};
   guacamole-server = handleTest ./guacamole-server.nix {};
   gvisor = handleTest ./gvisor.nix {};
diff --git a/nixos/tests/grow-partition.nix b/nixos/tests/grow-partition.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..344910848dca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/grow-partition.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+{ lib, ... }:
+
+let
+  rootFslabel = "external";
+  rootFsDevice = "/dev/disk/by-label/${rootFslabel}";
+
+  externalModule = partitionTableType: { config, lib, pkgs, ... }: {
+    virtualisation.directBoot.enable = false;
+    virtualisation.mountHostNixStore = false;
+    virtualisation.useEFIBoot = partitionTableType == "efi";
+
+    # This stops the qemu-vm module from overriding the fileSystems option
+    # with virtualisation.fileSystems.
+    virtualisation.fileSystems = lib.mkForce { };
+
+
+    boot.loader.grub.enable = true;
+    boot.loader.grub.efiSupport = partitionTableType == "efi";
+    boot.loader.grub.efiInstallAsRemovable = partitionTableType == "efi";
+    boot.loader.grub.device = if partitionTableType == "efi" then "nodev" else "/dev/vda";
+
+    boot.growPartition = true;
+
+    fileSystems = {
+      "/".device = rootFsDevice;
+    };
+
+    system.build.diskImage = import ../lib/make-disk-image.nix {
+      inherit config lib pkgs;
+      label = rootFslabel;
+      inherit partitionTableType;
+      format = "raw";
+      bootSize = "128M";
+      additionalSpace = "0M";
+      copyChannel = false;
+    };
+  };
+in
+{
+  name = "grow-partition";
+
+  meta.maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ arianvp ];
+
+  nodes = {
+    efi = externalModule "efi";
+    legacy = externalModule "legacy";
+    legacyGPT = externalModule "legacy+gpt";
+    hybrid = externalModule "hybrid";
+  };
+
+
+  testScript = { nodes, ... }:
+    lib.concatLines (lib.mapAttrsToList (name: node: ''
+    import os
+    import subprocess
+    import tempfile
+    import shutil
+
+    tmp_disk_image = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
+
+    shutil.copyfile("${node.system.build.diskImage}/nixos.img", tmp_disk_image.name)
+
+    subprocess.run([
+      "${node.virtualisation.qemu.package}/bin/qemu-img",
+      "resize",
+      "-f",
+      "raw",
+      tmp_disk_image.name,
+      "+32M",
+    ])
+
+    # Set NIX_DISK_IMAGE so that the qemu script finds the right disk image.
+    os.environ['NIX_DISK_IMAGE'] = tmp_disk_image.name
+
+    ${name}.wait_for_unit("growpart.service")
+    systemd_growpart_logs = ${name}.succeed("journalctl --boot --unit growpart.service")
+    assert "CHANGED" in systemd_growpart_logs
+    ${name}.succeed("systemctl restart growpart.service")
+    systemd_growpart_logs = ${name}.succeed("journalctl --boot --unit growpart.service")
+    assert "NOCHANGE" in systemd_growpart_logs
+
+    '') nodes);
+}