If you are with a hosting provider that uses WHMCS+VPS management platform architecture like Classic VPS, then you need to upgrade the entire VPS hosting package yourself to expand the hard drive. However, if you purchase a VPS host from a cloud host provider such as Linode, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, etc., then when the hard drive is full, it supports independent expansion of the hard drive.
Recently, a new SSD server has been online. The cost of SSD is too high, so the online SSD hard drive cannot directly have a few TB capacity like HDD. It can only gradually expand the hard drive according to business needs, so the theme of this article is born: Linux Dynamically expand hard drive capacity while keeping original data unchanged.
When we use a VPS host, we often encounter the situation of increasing the hard drive capacity. For example, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and Linode can directly add hard drives. If you use a SolusVM VPS host, you can directly increase the hard drive capacity in SolusVM. . However, after the hard disk capacity is expanded, we still need to manually mount the hard disk partition. Generally speaking, there are two ways to expand the hard disk of a Linux VPS host.
