# Increase volume size
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-volume-size/29166
**Category:** SLES Install-Boot
**Created:** [December 28, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-volume-size/29166 "2016-12-28T08:37:36Z")
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### Author:  [@bryan1207](https://forums.suse.com/u/bryan1207)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-volume-size/29166/1 "2016-12-28T08:37:36Z")
Hi, I’m using Hyper-V on my SLES 11. In my initial setup the HDD is only 50GB. But I’ve increase it to 1TB. The problem is, where to apply or extend the volume size?
See image for reference.
I want to increase the /dev/sda1 is that possible?
I’m new to Linux, sorry for ignorance.
Thanks,
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### Author:  [@bryan1207](https://forums.suse.com/u/bryan1207)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-volume-size/29166/2 "2016-12-28T08:50:58Z")
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### Author:  [@thsundel](https://forums.suse.com/u/thsundel)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2016, 10:32am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-volume-size/29166/3 "2016-12-28T10:32:57Z")
It seems like your server is not setup with LVM so you won’t be able to easily “increase the volume size”.
Is there a reason you need to increase the root partition, maybe you could just add a new 1TB disk, partition it and mount it as /mnt/mydatadisk for example?
Thomas
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### Author:  [@bryan1207](https://forums.suse.com/u/bryan1207)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2016, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-volume-size/29166/4 "2016-12-28T11:12:18Z")
Hi, thanks for your reply. So, to summarize I cannot increase the size of the /dev/sda1? What I did now is create new partition /dev/sda3
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### Author:  [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-volume-size/29166/5 "2016-12-28T15:48:19Z")
Because your partition layout has swap after the main filesystem, you’re a
bit stuck trying to resize the actual partitions as they are, but you
could boot from external media, delete swap (it’s not important 99% of the
time), resize root to take up most of the space, and optionally add swap
back. Using something like Yast, or parted, should make this pretty easy,
though because you do not have LVM in place (something else that needs to
be done at initial-install time usually) you’re left doing this with
external media rather than from the running system.
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Good luck.
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### Author:  [@KEVIN1](https://forums.suse.com/u/KEVIN1)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-volume-size/29166/6 "2016-12-28T20:41:46Z")
> [@bryan1207;35829](#):
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> What I did now is create new partition /dev/sda3
That’s probably your best option…
Bad things happen to a Linux system when you run out of disk space. To minimize the risk of that happening, it is much safer to use a separate disk or partition to store backups.
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### Author:  [@buzzlight15](https://forums.suse.com/u/buzzlight15)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-volume-size/29166/7 "2017-01-13T16:25:57Z")
Hi man’s,
the Suse installation is complete after you insert the first DVD, or you need the second dvd?
Because it is senseless to release a DVD 3Gb and 5Gb from another.
Sorry if it is not the appropriate section and for my English.
Thank’s.
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### Author:  [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/increase-volume-size/29166/8 "2017-01-13T16:53:11Z")
[QUOTE=buzzlight15;36068]Hi man’s,
the Suse installation is complete after you insert the first DVD, or you need the second dvd?
Because it is senseless to release a DVD 3Gb and 5Gb from another.
Sorry if it is not the appropriate section and for my English.
Thank’s.[/QUOTE]
Hi and welcome to the Forum 🙂
The second DVD (and the same for the SDK) is the src rpms and not needed for installing SLE…