Extend a volume

Use this procedure to resize an existing block storage volume.

Verify volume status of instance

1. Check volume status
2. Execute command lsblk to check volume status.
3. Execute command df -h to check filesystem status.

ubuntu@demo-ubuntu:~$ lsblk
NAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
vda     253:0    0   80G  0 disk
├─vda1  253:1    0   79G  0 part /
├─vda14 253:14   0    4M  0 part
├─vda15 253:15   0  106M  0 part /boot/efi
└─vda16 259:0    0  913M  0 part /boot
vdb     253:16   0   20G  0 disk /mnt/disk20g

ubuntu@demo-ubuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           392M  1.1M  391M   1% /run
/dev/vda1        77G  1.9G   75G   3% /
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
/dev/vdb         20G   24K   19G   1% /mnt/disk20g
/dev/vda16      881M   61M  758M   8% /boot
/dev/vda15      105M  6.1M   99M   6% /boot/efi
tmpfs           392M   12K  392M   1% /run/user/1000

Extend volume

1. Navigate to Project > Storage > Volumes, , choose desired volume, than hover to More.

   

2. Hover to Capacity & Type at the drop down menu, than click Extend Volume from drop down expended.

   

3. Input volume size desired to extend to before click OK to proceed.

   

Verify and Set Volume Extend result

Linux

1. Check new volume status.
2. Execute command sudo growpart /dev/vda 1 to extend the volume size.
3. Execute command sudo resize2fs /dev/vda1 to extend the file system size.
4. Check new volume status again to verify the change.

ubuntu@demo-ubuntu:~$ sudo growpart /dev/vda 1
CHANGED: partition=1 start=2099200 old: size=165672927 end=167772126 new: size=207615967 end=209715166

ubuntu@demo-ubuntu:~$ lsblk
NAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
vda     253:0    0  100G  0 disk
├─vda1  253:1    0   99G  0 part /
├─vda14 253:14   0    4M  0 part
├─vda15 253:15   0  106M  0 part /boot/efi
└─vda16 259:0    0  913M  0 part /boot
vdb     253:16   0   20G  0 disk /mnt/disk20g

ubuntu@demo-ubuntu:~$ sudo resize2fs /dev/vda1
resize2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Filesystem at /dev/vda1 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old_desc_blocks = 10, new_desc_blocks = 13
The filesystem on /dev/vda1 is now 25951995 (4k) blocks long.

ubuntu@demo-ubuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           392M  1.1M  391M   1% /run
/dev/vda1        96G  1.9G   94G   2% /
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
/dev/vdb         20G   24K   19G   1% /mnt/disk20g
/dev/vda16      881M   61M  758M   8% /boot
/dev/vda15      105M  6.1M   99M   6% /boot/efi
tmpfs           392M   12K  392M   1% /run/user/1000

Windows

• Check the new size by execute command compmgmt.msc to open the Disk Management