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In the pop up menu, change the volume size to the new value and press reconfigure.

Once the VM status is back to status "running", you can login to your VM and . There, you will find that the disk is now largerspace has not changed.  However, this is as if you'd put a new larger hard disk into the machine and cloned the existing filesystem onto it.  To make use of the new disk space, you need to do some more steps - in short, you need to expand the partition and filesystem to fill the new space.

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In order to use the new volume, there are several possibilitypossibilities, e.g. create a new partition for the newly created disk space. Here, we show how to extend an existing partition on the disk to use the added volume.

In this example, we have a 10 GB partition, which we want to increase to 20 GB having completed the above volume change on morpheus.

Running `df

df -h

h` should show the previous size of the mounted partition, with output like

```

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

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udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev

...

tmpfs 798M 760K 797M 1% /run

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/dev/vda1 15G 11G 3.7G 75% /

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tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm

...

tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock

...

tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup

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/dev/vda15 105M 8.9M 96M 9% /boot/efi

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/dev/vdb1 9.8G 3.1G 6.3G 33% /data-1

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tmpfs 798M 0 798M 0% /run/user/352200006

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Where 

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Where `/dev/vdb1` vdb1 is the partition which we want to increase.

1. Check if the command line tool

   `parted`

   parted is installed, e.g. call

   `parted

   parted --

   help`

   help

2. Make sure you have sudo rights on the VM
3. If you just execute `parted` parted, you will land in on the parted console, which you can exit typing `quit` quit.
4. Unmount the disk - `sudo disk 

   sudo umount /dev/

   vdb1`

   vdb1

5. Launch parted as superuser - `sudo parted`.superuser 

   sudo parted

6. Type the command `print all` which should show information about the partitions ```

   (parted) print all

   
   

   
   Model: Virtio Block Device (virtblk)

   
   

   
   Disk /dev/vdb: 21.5GB

   
   

   
   Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

   
   

   
   Partition Table: msdos

   
   

   
   Disk Flags:

   
   
   Number Start End Size Type File system Flags

   
   

   
   1 1049kB 10.7GB 10.7GB primary ext4

   
   
   
   Model: Virtio Block Device (virtblk)

   
   

   
   Disk /dev/vda: 16.1GB

   
   

   
   Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

   
   

   
   Partition Table: gpt

   
   

   
   Disk Flags:

   
   
   Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

   
   

   
   14 1049kB 5243kB 4194kB bios_grub

   
   

   
   15 5243kB 116MB 111MB fat32 boot, esp

   
   

   
   1 116MB 16.1GB 16.0GB ext4

   ```
   Which shows, that the volume has been extended to the desired size, but the partition is not using it entirely.
7. Select the disk you want to extend typing `select

   (parted) select /dev/

   vdb`.

   vdb

   The command `print` print should now show only information on this disk.
8. Now, type the command `resizepart` and resizepart and give the relevant answers. In this example: Partition number? 1; Are you sure you want to continue? Yes; End? 100%; 
   

   (parted) resizepart

   
   

   
   Partition number? 1

   
   

   
   Warning: Partition /dev/vdb1 is being used. Are you sure you want to continue?

   
   

   
   Yes/No? Yes

   
   

   
   End? [10.7GB]? 100%
   

9. Now `print` , print should show that the partition is now using the entire disk space.
10. Type `quit` to exit the parted console.

Extend the filesystem

As the last stepNow, we still need to tell the filesystem to use the entire partition. This can be done using typing using the command resize2fs, which in . In this example is `sudo :

sudo resize2fs /dev/vdb1`.vdb1

Remount the partition with `sudo

sudo mount /dev/vdb1

vdb1` or `sudo

sudo mount -a`Now, running `df -h` will show the correct size and you can use the free spacea

and you are done.

To confirm your reconfiguration, run 

df -h

which should show the increased size, see the increased value of /dev/vdb1 in this example:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs           798M  764K  797M   1% /run
/dev/vda1        15G   11G  3.7G  75% /
tmpfs           3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/vda15      105M  8.9M   96M   9% /boot/efi
tmpfs           798M     0  798M   0% /run/user/352200006
/dev/vdb1        20G  3.1G   16G  17% /data-1

Which has changed from 9.8G to 20G.