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.
NoteFor more information on cloud disk expansion, see Expanding Cloud Disks.
To protect important data, you can create a snapshot to back up your cloud disk data before expanding it.
You have initialized the cbs-test
cloud disk.
Log in to the CVM console and click Cloud Block Storage on the left sidebar.
Select More > Expand on the right of the target cloud disk.
In the Expand Disk Capacity pop-up window, select the new capacity and click Next.
Click Adjust Now.
NoteThis 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.
NoteThis 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).
Right-click the blank space of the disk and select Extend Volume.
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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