Dexciss Technology - Upsize Contabo Server Storage with the Incremented Space

Ensure that you have taken a snapshot before going ahead with partition resizing

Run the following command:

sudo apt install cloud-guest-utils -y && sudo growpart /dev/sda 1 && sudo resize2fs /dev/sda1 && df -h /

✅ Step-by-Step to Resize /dev/sda1

1. Install cloud-guest-utils (if not installed)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install cloud-guest-utils -y

2. Grow Partition

sudo growpart /dev/sda 1

✅ You should see output like:

CHANGED: partition=1 start=... old: size=... end=... new: size=...

3. Resize Filesystem

sudo resize2fs /dev/sda1

4. Verify Success

df -h /

Expected:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       ~684G  75G  ~600G  ...

📌 One-Line Script for Quick Run:

sudo apt install cloud-guest-utils -y && sudo growpart /dev/sda 1 && sudo resize2fs /dev/sda1 && df -h /