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Disk Space Expansion
This guide applies when you purchase additional storage space for services in the Contabo location.
Note that expansion is only possible within the same storage architecture (migrating from NVMe to NVMe or from SSD to SSD). If you switch, for example, from an NVMe drive to an SSD, a complete disk replacement with data removal is required.
Connect to the virtual server. Then install the required software with the following command:
apt install cloud-utils -yRetrieve information about the system partition in use. In our example (and typically on all Contabo VPS servers) this is sda3:
mount | grep ' / '
Now run the following commands to expand the disk:
sudo growpart /dev/sda 3sudo resize2fs /dev/sda3