1and1 Dynamic Cloud Server Disk Allocation

I have a Dynamic Cloud Server with 1 and 1 which should have 100GB of disk space. Imagine my surprise when after a few days I was getting alerts telling me that I was already out of space!

Checking the server it turned out that I only had 4GB assigned to /var!!!!

A quick call to 1 and 1 revealed why. Although I did have 100GB available to me the retards at 1 and 1 decided that us server owners should work out ourselves how to use LVM to increase our partitions from the devices ourselves! NO WARNING, NO NOTES NO NOTHING!

So after speaking to a server tech (who agreed that it was bloody stupid that customers weren’t warned about this) I was pointed to a useful FAQ that helped me increase my partition sizes.

It is also worth noting that if you increase your available disk space from the cloud server menu you need to follow a separate FAQ to get your server to use it!

How can I increase a Logical Volume
How do I assign additional disk space on a Linux DCS?

If you go to faq.1and1.co.uk and search for LVM these articles come up.

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