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Step 4. Expanding Cloud Disk Capacity (Optional)

Last updated: 2022-09-29 17:39:35

    Overview

    You can expand a cloud disk to increase its storage space. This document describes how to expand a cloud disk via the console, and assign its expanded capacity to an existing file system.

    Note

    For more information on cloud disk expansion, see Expanding Cloud Disks.

    Note

    To protect important data, you can create a snapshot to back up your cloud disk data before expanding it.

    Prerequisites

    You have initialized the cbs-test cloud disk.

    Directions

    Expanding cloud disks via the console

    1. Log in to the CVM console and click Cloud Block Storage on the left sidebar.

    2. Select More > Expand on the right of the target cloud disk.

    3. In the Expand Disk Capacity pop-up window, select the new capacity and click Next.

    4. Click Adjust Now.

    Rescanning the disk

    Note

    This section uses a CVM instance with Windows Server 2012 R2 DataCenter 64-bit English installed as an example. Note that the steps may vary by operating system version.

    1. Log in to the Windows CVM instance as the admin user. See Logging in to Windows Instance Using RDP (Recommended).
    2. On the desktop, right-click in the lower-left corner, and select Computer Management.
    3. Right-click Disk Management and select Rescan Disks.
    4. After the scan is complete, check whether the data disk has the size after the expansion.

    Extending file systems of an existing partition

    Note

    This document takes extending file systems of the existing partition as an example, that is, assigning the expanded capacity to the existing E drive. For more information, see Extending Partitions and File Systems (Windows).

    1. Right-click the blank space of the disk and select Extend Volume.

    2. Follow the Extend Volume Wizard to extend the volume.
      The new data disk capacity will be added to the original volume.

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