I made a vfat disk image of a usb using dd. Then I added some space to it like this dd if=/dev/zero bs=3540k count=1024 >> usb.img

I want to resize the vfat partition to fill the rest of the space how can I do this?

I tried parted and gparted usb.img but neither recognize any partition table.

Thanks

I hope you mean "I made a disk image of a vfat partition using dd"

If that's what you meant, you can't do it like that.

You cannot add space to your partition with dd You need to use a partition manager eg. fdisk, because this correctly writes the changes to the partition table.

My suggestion:
Create and format the partition you want the files to be on.
Mount the disk image file with the loopback option ( read man mount for the details)
Copy the files across to the newly created and formatted partition.
Done.

tredegar, that is what I meant 'I hope you mean "I made a disk image of a vfat partition using dd"'

Will this keep the image a bootable? My goal is to a CD.

Data CDs and HD partitions have different filesystems.

If your goal was to image it back to a pendrive after resizing the filesystem, it might be doable.
I'm not certain, but try attaching a loop device to your new (larger) file and run gparted on the loop device.

sudo /sbin/losetup -fs <filename>

If you created an image of a entire disk and not a partition, then use an offset of 63 blocks. Use the file command to test it.
sudo /sbin/losetup -fs <filename> -o $(63*512)
#the -fs option will locate a loop device for you and respond with which loop device it used, e.g. /dev/loop1
file -s /dev/loop1

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This is something that I haven't tried, but using losetup instead of mounting the image, you may be able to resize the filesystem in the file using the loop device. Don't have the filesystem mounted however.

jschiwal, Gparted still behaves the same way with the /dev/loop0. Thanks for the suggestion.