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Linode Blog > Storage

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Christopher Aker

Disk Resizing Up and Down

Nov 8, 2003
by Christopher Aker
I just released a new feature for resizing disk images both larger and smaller. For resizing larger, the only change was that if you resize a disk image labeled as swap, it will delete and recreate the swap image. Previously it would resize the Image itself, but not re-make the swap within. For resizing smaller, […]
Storage
Christopher Aker

Adding another hard drive to your Linode

Jun 28, 2003
by Christopher Aker
Create a disk image, formatted to ext3 (or whatever) Go into your config profile Find an empty /dev/ubd* device – probably /dev/ubdc if you’ve got a root and a swap already. Select your new drive label from the drop-down. Save the config Reboot your linode Now, inside the Linode, you can mount it like so: […]
Storage