Azure disk size too small. Linux basic A0 only 29GB
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Solution
The VM's operating system drive is backed by a blob in your Azure storage account. The blob is a VHD file. When you created the VM, the appropriate VHD was copied from the gallery into your storage account.
The gallery-provided VHD file has a logical capacity of 30GB by design. The documentation states that the maximum allowed size is 127GB, but that is incidental - the gallery images are 30GB.
The solution is two steps, resize the VHD itself (and corresponding blob), then use Linux tooling to resize the partition. This may help:
Resizing a Windows Azure virtual disk
Problem
I have just created a linux (Ubuntu 14.4) virtual machine in Azure (SE Asia) Issue: I only have 29GB not 127GB It is a Basic Tier, A0 (smallest size) The advertised disk drive size is 127GB (+20GB tmp) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn197896.aspx I find (after running out of disk space) that I only have around 29GB. ``` Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 29G 24G 4.1G 86% / none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 323M 12K 323M 1% /dev tmpfs 68M 388K 67M 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 336M 0 336M 0% /run/shm none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user /dev/sdb1 20G 4.3G 15G 23% /mnt ``` Running `cfdisk` shows there is no other free space on the drive. I can't find any documentation to suggest why only 29GB. Is this a bug/issue/problem with my VM? Or is it something to do with linux/ubuntu 14.4/basic tier A0 ?