Never ending battle with mate-fta & resize-fs. Hopefully fixed now.

overlays/mate-fta/etc/fstab

+# Static information about the filesystems.
+# See fstab(5) for details.
+
+# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
+LABEL=BOOT      /boot   vfat    defaults          0       0
+/dev/mmcblk0p2  /       ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1

overlays/mate-fta/usr/bin/resize-fs

-#!/bin/sh
-# This script will attempt to resize the partition and filesystem in order to fill the sdcard
- # Credits to rpi-distro https://github.com/RPi-Distro/raspi-config/
-
-# Get device and partition numbers/names
- # Root Partition
-  PART_DEV=`findmnt / -o source -n`
- 
- # Remove '/dev/' from the name 
-  PART_NAME=`echo $PART_DEV | cut -d "/" -f 3`
- 
- # Set just the name of the device, usually mmcblk0
-  DEV_NAME=`echo /sys/block/*/${PART_NAME} | cut -d "/" -f 4`
-
- # Add /dev/ to device name
-  DEV="/dev/${DEV_NAME}"
-
- # Get Number of device as single digit integer
-  PART_NUM=`cat /sys/block/${DEV_NAME}/${PART_NAME}/partition`
-
- # Get size of SDCard (final sector)
-  SECTOR_SIZE=`cat /sys/block/${DEV_NAME}/size`
-
- # Set the ending sector that the partition should be resized too
-  END_SECTOR=`expr $SECTOR_SIZE - 1`
-
-#growpartfs $PART_DEV
-
-# resize the partition
-parted -m $DEV u s resizepart $PART_NUM $END_SECTOR
-
-# reload the partitions in the kernel
-partprobe
-
-# resize
-resize2fs $PART_DEV
-
-#sudo systemctl disable resize-fs.service
-
-#reboot
-
-