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Helen
Helen

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Google cloud engine disk is 100 GB but it says it's full at ~50GB

I am new to using google cloud engine. I'm having trouble understanding why my disk is supposed to be 100 GB but it's full when there's not much on it. I have now deleted that instance and created another that is also supposed to be 100 GB but again it's not. I'm sure there's an explanation but despite reading a great number of answers to similar questions here, I can't get this resolved. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here? [Disclaimer: I'm new to using commands in a terminal etc.]

From VM instance details

Image: ubuntu-minimal-1604-xenial-v20191113

Size (GB): 100

df -h

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlay          41G   31G   10G  76% /
tmpfs            64M     0   64M   0% /dev
tmpfs           847M     0  847M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1        41G   31G   10G  76% /root
/dev/sdb1       4.8G  4.6G     0 100% /home
shm              64M     0   64M   0% /dev/shm
overlayfs       1.0M  164K  860K  17% /etc/ssh/keys
overlayfs       1.0M  164K  860K  17% /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
tmpfs           847M  700K  846M   1% /run/metrics
tmpfs           847M     0  847M   0% /run/google/devshell

me@cloudshell:~ (first-try-at-project)$ lsblk

NAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda       8:0    0   45G  0 disk
├─sda1    8:1      40.9G  0 part /var/lib/docker
├─sda2    8:2    0   16M  0 part
├─sda3    8:3    0    2G  0 part
├─sda4    8:4    0   16M  0 part
├─sda5    8:5    0    2G  0 part
├─sda6    8:6       512B  0 part
├─sda7    8:7    0  512B  0 part
├─sda8    8:8        16M  0 part
├─sda9    8:9    0  512B  0 part
├─sda10   8:10   0  512B  0 part
├─sda11   8:11        8M  0 part
└─sda12   8:12   0   32M  0 part
sdb       8:16   0    5G  0 disk
└─sdb1    8:17   0    5G  0 part /home
zram0   252:0    0  768M  0 disk [SWAP]

Upvotes: 1

Views: 285

Answers (1)

Helen
Helen

Reputation: 63

Somehow just after finally posting my quetion I have figured this out!

I didn't realize before that:

When you start Cloud Shell, it provisions a g1-small Google Compute Engine virtual machine running a Debian-based Linux operating system.

What I needed to do was connect to the VM instance using SSH.

I hope my answer to my own question can help someone else who is new to this and struggling.

Upvotes: 2

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