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Kyle Mathews
Kyle Mathews

Reputation: 3278

Access hard drive for VM that won't boot

The hard drive on my VM filled up (it was under a SSH login attack I believe) and now the VM won't boot.

How can I access the boot hard drive so I can clear out space and get it booting again?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 734

Answers (1)

Ali
Ali

Reputation: 566

You'll need to delete the instance without deleting the boot disk, attach the disk on a temporary instance and then mount it there. The instructions to do this can found here: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/troubleshooting#ssherrors (Mount your disk on a temporary instance)

You'll then be able to access the disk through the /mnt/myinstance directory, and delete the files. Once the disk is no longer full, you can detach the disk from the temporary instance, and then use it to recreate your original instance.

Upvotes: 4

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