Adding an additional comment rather than editing the accepted solution. It was also necessary to issue the following command after growing the partition to make the space available to the file system.
sudo resize2fs /dev/sda6
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Usually there should be an error shown on the console so it might be helpful to know how it behaves in a current Google Chrome with this, because an error should be shown by default there (unless disabled by the user)
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