$ df -h

Look for a partition which approximately has 2GB size of the distribution image.

$ umount /dev/mmcblk0p1

Then use parted to examine the card

$ sudo parted /dev/sdd
(parted) unit chs
(parted) print
Disk /dev/sdd: 121535,3,31
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 121536,4,32.  Each cylinder is 65.5kB.
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start      End         Type     File system     Flags
 1      16,0,0     1215,3,31   primary  fat32           lba
 2      1232,0,0   26671,3,31  primary  ext4
 3      26688,0,0  29743,3,31  primary  linux-swap(v1)

Notice that nothing uses the card from the end of the cylinder 29743 to 121535 (which is the maximum). However in my case there wasn't a third partition called the swap. There were only two partitions; namely the boot partition and the root partition. I left the boot partition alone. I wanted to fill the SD card with the root partition. Nevertheless if there was a swap, then it would have to be moved to the end of the card. (You'll have to adjust the numbers so that the end of the partition 3 is at the end cylinder/head/sector of the card)

Here's the calculation.

Maximum - (Partition 3 End - Partition 3 Start) ) - 1 = Partition 3 New Start

So, in this example:

(121535 - ( 29743 - 26688)) -1 = 118479

Then move the partition. ( Note that this wouldn't work on parted versions later than 2.4 )

(parted) move 3 118479,0,0

However if there was no swap like in my case,  life becomes much simpler.

(parted) rm 2
(parted) mkpart primary 1232,0,0 121534,0,0
(parted) quit

Note that in my case, the head and sector numbers did not exactly coincide. (eg:- 3,31 at the end). Therefore as a precaution, I counted one cylinder less from the total available cylinders. ( i.e. 121534,0,0 )

The rest of the steps were easy.

Clean and resize the root partition.

$ sudo e2fsck -f /dev/mmcblk0p1

Allow it to add lost and found

$ sudo resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1

After the steps this was the result.