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I need to expand the disk of my server 

Solution

You can When working with Spinup servers, it's essential to understand the capabilities and limitations regarding disk resizing. You have the flexibility to expand any of the disks attached to your Spinup servers up to a maximum size of 10 TB, however, you cannot shrink a disk. Please note that resizing disks is not supported . However, it's important to note that once expanded, these disks cannot be reduced in size. Additionally, this resizing feature is not available for TryIT servers.

At To resize a disk, simply navigate to the bottom of the your server page in Spinup there's a and locate the "Disks" panel listing all of the disks attached to your server. By default there is only one (root) disk. Click the "gear" icon under Actions . Here, you'll find a list of all attached disks, with the root disk displayed by default. To initiate the resizing process, click on the gear icon under the 'Actions' column next to the desired disk and enter the new size that you wantin the pop-up window.

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After resizing, the updated disk size will appear in the Disks panel

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, usually within a few minutes. Keep in mind that there is a mandatory waiting period of at least 6 hours before

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you can resize the same disk again; attempting to do so within this timeframe will result in an error.

Important: If this is For Linux servers, if you're resizing the root disk, be aware that due to MBR partitioning limitations, you cannot use more than 2 TB because of file system limitation (Linux servers use MBR partitioning by default). If you need more than 2 TB please . Should you require more space, it's advisable to add a new disk. After Following the disk is resized resize, you may need to manually extend the file system from the OS before to make the new capacity is usable. For specific Detailed instructions you can see the AWS documentation.

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for this can be found in AWS's documentation - for Linux servers, visit AWS's Linux Volume Expansion Guide. In the case of Windows servers, the file system should extend automatically.


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