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

[Matt James]

I'll second.  I've done that 2 or 3 times successfully.

Matt
On May 1, 2014 12:08 PM, "Chip Atkinson" <chip at pupman.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>
>> Do anyone have any advice on how to increase the size of the root
>> partition in Ubuntu running as a VM on Azure?
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Richard Mandel
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