Skip to main content

Data Disk Expansion

info

By default, the root partition is provisioned with ~100GB and the data partition is provisioned with ~49GB

Default Layout:

Update disk size in GCP:​

  • Login to GCP Console

  • Navigate to VM Instances

  • Click on the VM that requires the disk size to be increased.

    Location Map

  • Navigate to the storage section and click on the boot disk name. Location Map

  • Click on the Edit button Location Map

  • Replace the disk size with a value larger than the current one. Location Map

  • SSH into the VM and reboot the node to apply changes to the disk, then continue with the next section.

Expand the disk on a cluster node​

  • To expand the available space on the disk, Launch the fwd-cluster utility and execute the below command:

    Forward Cluster> host expand-disk