Step 3: How to Expand a Hard Drive Partition on your Cloud Server

Windows

Connect to your server via RDP
Open the Server Manager and select Tools then Computer Management
From Storage in the left pane, select Disk Management. In the left pane of Disk Management you will see the current formatted hard drive for your server
Select the C: drive and right-click on it. Choose Extend Volume from the drop down menu.
This will open the Extend Volume Wizard. Click Next to begin
To add all available space to your C: drive, keep the default selections and press Next
You will now see the C: drive expand to the maximum available space. To finalize the modifications click Finish.

Ubuntu

** Instructions are for LVM on CeraNet Cloud Servers which is the default configuration **

Basic Ubuntu Instructions

Extended Ubuntu Instructions

Connect to your server via SSH
Locate partition where LVM is located (ie dev/sda3) using lsblk
Execute sudo growpart /dev/sda 3 replacing the partition with the LVM partition location found in previous step, including space
Execute sudo pvresize /dev/sda3 replacing the partition with the LVM partition location found in first step, no space
Locate the name of the LV (ie /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv) using lvdisplay
Execute sudo lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv to extend the LV replacing the LV name with the name found in the previous step
Locate the LV filesystem name (ie /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv) using df -h
Execute sudo resize2fs /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv to resize the LV replacing the LV filesystem name with the name found in the previous step
Verify the changes with lblk and df -h

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