If you purchased a disk space upgrade, or upgraded your VPS to a larger package, you have the following options to use this additional disk space.
- The easiest way to install the disk space is to re-install your VPS. You will then automatically use the extra disk space, but will lose the current data on your VPS.
- You can either add partitions or grow existing partitions. The methods to create a partition are not the same for every operating system and are listed below for different OS's:
CentOS
Ubuntu/Debian/Gentoo Linux
OpenBSD
FreeBSD
Windows Server - If you are using a Linux based OS in combination with LVM, you have the option to 'grow' your partition. You can find a guide for growing a partition via LVM here. Web control panel installations such as Plesk, cPanel or DirectAdmin come with LVM by default.
- If you are not using LVM or want to use a GUI, you can use GParted to increase a partition.
- When using Windows Server you can also 'grow' partition to a larger size. You can find a step-by-step guide on the following link.