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Leb
Leb

Reputation: 15953

Google VM additional disk storage

I created a VM with Google Compute Engine and I'm running out of space on it, so I created another disk and attached it to the VM through Google Console menu, but when I still login to the VM through SSH it's still showing up the original space of my VM.

The original VM space is 10GB and the disk is 100GB, when I login to console.developers.google.com and click on VM instances I see my VM and under it the "disk" tab for it I see "VM1, disk-1".

Through SSH I still see Usage of /: 94.8% of 9.81GB. Do I need to run a command through SSH to make it use both?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 307

Answers (1)

Misha Brukman
Misha Brukman

Reputation: 13424

Here's how to add another disk to a Google Compute Engine VM:

  1. create a new disk
  2. attach the disk to the VM

  3. format and mount the disk, e.g.,

    $ sudo mkdir MOUNT_POINT
$ sudo /usr/share/google/safe_format_and_mount -m "mkfs.ext4 -F" \
      DISK_LOCATION MOUNT_POINT

Looks like you did steps 1 and 2, so you just need to do step 3 to complete the process.

Upvotes: 1

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