In order to take advantage of the increased storage space after a VPS upgrade, you need to resize your partitions manually. You can do it using the Gparted graphic utility.

How to mount Gparted:

  1. Log in to your VPS Control Panel with Control Panel Username and Control Panel Password you received by email
  2. Click on the CDRom tab
  3. Select 'Gparted 0.28.1'
  4. Click on the Mount button
  5. Click on the Settings tab
  6. Choose the '(1) CDRom (2) Hard Disk' type of Boot Order
  7. Reboot your VPS by clicking 'Reboot' button in your VPS Control Panel
  8. After VPS reboot the system will boot into the Gparted. To access Gparted interface, use the VNC function on the main page, and select the HTML5 option. 

 (lightbulb) Once you are in the Gparted GUI, proceed to resizing the partition:


1. Select a partition.




















2. Click on the Partition tab, choose Resize/Move and adjust the size of the partition.  Specify the alignment of the partition and click on the Resize/Move button and click Apply




















4. Reboot your VPS and do notforget to change Boot Order type to default '(1) Hard Disk (2) CDRom' in your VPS Control Panel.

1. If you have a SWAP enabled in your system, you must delete the SWAP before partition resize.


2. After deleting SWAP, click on the Partition tab, choose Resize/Move and adjust the size of the partition, leaving the required amount of disk space for a SWAP partition. Click Apply.


4. Choose an unallocated partition and create a new one by specifying the linux-swap file system. Click Apply.


5. Done. Reboot your VPS and do not forget to change Boot Order type to default '(1) Hard Disk (2) CDRom' in your VPS Control Panel.


(warning) In case you have more than one partition (i.e. main partition and swap), they will initially be next to each other, which will prevent you from extending the main partition into the unpartitioned space. In this situation all you have to do is to move the last partition(s) to the very end of the unpartitioned space and then extend the main partition to fill the gap