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Increase or Decrease size of Virtual Machine (VM) in Google Cloud
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Follow the steps to increase or decrease the size of VM in Google Cloud :

  1. Goto https://console.cloud.google.com
  2. Goto Compute Engine tab, followed by VM Instances.
  3. Select the VM for which you want to increase/decrease the disk size.
  4. Under Boot disk, you will see one(or more) disks for the VM. Click on one for which you desire to update disk size.
  5. Click Edit in the top. Then, modify the Size. At last, click on save.
  6. Now, we just need to tell the OS to grow the partition to the total size. This can be done by executing following commands :
fdisk -l
growpart /dev/sda 1
resize2fs /dev/sda1
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