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1) Resize the VM Disk in PVE

Precautions

Stop!
Take a snapshot or backup of your VM in its current state for easy rollback in the event of failure or data loss.

Extend the Disk in PVE

GUI

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Example VM: Windows 11, current disk size: 75 GiB

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Select Hardware menu and select the current disk

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Click "Resize"

When resizing, you will not be declaring the new disk size. You are indicating how much more storage to add to the disk.

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Add an additional 5 GiB of storage to the disk and click "Resize disk"

Disk resizing on PVE is now complete. You must log into the VM and expand any partitions / volumes.