[lug] Increasing the size of the Root partition in Ubuntu on Azure VM

[Chip Atkinson]

You could try gparted.  I've had decent luck in the past with that on VMs. 
Snap shot first.  Then increase the virtual disk size and run 
gparted.

Chip


On Thu, 1 May 2014, Richard Mandel wrote:

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> Do anyone have any advice on how to increase the size of the root partition in Ubuntu running as a VM on Azure?
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> Working on a client’s VM on Azure. Apparently when he setup the VM, he didn’t specify drive size so it defaulted
> to 30GB on the root partition, and we need around 80GB. Is there a way to resize this without jumping through
> all sorts of hoops?
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