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Increase Photon System Disk

I use the minimal Photon distribution and it seems the system disk is only around 8GB.

That fills up quickly when installing some humongous Docker containers :/

List usage

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df -h

Check available space on disk

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fdisk -l

Install Diskpart

tdnf install parted

Diskpart

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2
parted
print free

Increase size

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2
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resizepart
2
100000
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2
print free
quit

Reboot

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reboot

Resize filesystem

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resize2fs /dev/sda2
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df -h

And a reboot just for good measure

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