Hello all, I'm very sorry for the question but I'm just learning Linux and cannot find my answer. I'll explain better below: I currently rent a VPS with OVH (VPS SSD 2016 plans) and their basic plan comes with a 10GB SSD. I remember that back in the day, I upgraded to their middle tier one (20GB space) and although after the migration I did have a bigger disk, my filesystem was still using the old amount, so I had unallocated disk space. I then created a ticket with them and they told me that I would need to reinstall my VPS from scratch in order to use the full amount, or pay them 80 EUR for the service. After a lot of back and forth, with me explaining how an upgrade package needs additional fees and technical support, I decided to Google around and then I found a solution that literally was a single line of code, no reboot required, no restart, nothing. Right after that, my filesystem was using the whole disk. I then wrote them that and closed the ticket. Today I went ahead and upgraded again, to their next tier since I need more horsepower now and more disk space (40GB this time) I did this and went to check my old tickets for this command to run and continue business as usual just to find out that they had recently erased every ticket when they started their new interface! So now, I cannot for the life of me, find this command again and expand my filesystem. Can someone help me out? I'm running Debian 7/ISPConfig 3 from one of the Perfect Server tutorials and everything is fine apart from this small problem. The output of df-h showing the used space Code: root@myserver:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 20G 17G 2.1G 90% / udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev tmpfs 782M 196K 782M 1% /run /dev/vda1 20G 17G 2.1G 90% / tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /run/shm /dev/vda1 20G 17G 2.1G 90% /var/www/clients/web1/log /dev/vda1 20G 17G 2.1G 90% /var/www/clients/web2/log /dev/vda1 20G 17G 2.1G 90% /var/www/clients/web3/log /dev/vda1 20G 17G 2.1G 90% /var/www/clients/web4/log /dev/vda1 20G 17G 2.1G 90% /var/www/clients/web5/log The output of fdisk -l showing the full disk size (42.9GB) Code: root@myserver:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/vda: 42.9 GB, 42949672960 bytes 4 heads, 32 sectors/track, 655360 cylinders, total 83886080 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/vda1 * 2048 41943039 20970496 83 Linux So in resume, I would like to expand my /dev/vda1 to use the entire available space. Thanks so much in advance, Arky
Hello! Thanks for your answer, however I get this message: Code: resize2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) The filesystem is already 5242624 blocks long. Nothing to do! Thanks again!
Stupid me =) resizing the filesystem might be needed after resizing the partition Sooo... resize the partition like described here Yeah it's the Centos docs, but parted is pretty much the same everywhere =)
Just perfect! Thanks so much. I was afraid of losing the data when following the HowTo and it asks to dele the partition, and recreate it. But everything went super smooth. Thanks so much again! For future information, I followed this: https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Deployment_Guide/s2-disk-storage-parted-resize-part.html. https://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions_p2 Then after rebooting, just ran your command and all good!
