<p>Hi im trying to resize a disk for a pod in my kubernetes cluster,following the steps on the <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/add-persistent-disk" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="docs">docs</a>, i ssh in to the instance node to follow the steps, but its giving me an error </p>

<pre><code>sudo growpart /dev/sdb 1
WARN: unknown label 
failed [sfd_dump:1] sfdisk --unit=S --dump /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb: device contains a valid 'ext4' signature; it is strongly recommended to wipe the device with wipefs(8)
 if this is unexpected, in order to avoid possible collisions
sfdisk: failed to dump partition table: Success
FAILED: failed to dump sfdisk info for /dev/sdb
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<p>i try running the commands from inside the pod but doesnt even locate the disk even tho its there </p>

<pre><code>root@rc-test-r2cfg:/# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlay          59G  2.5G   56G   5% /
/dev/sdb         49G   22G   25G  47% /var/lib/postgresql/data

root@rc-test-r2cfg:/# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb      8:16   0  96G  0 disk /var/lib/postgresql/data
sda      8:0    0  60G  0 disk
└─sda1   8:1    0  60G  0 part /etc/hosts

root@rc-test-r2cfg:/# growpart /dev/sdb 1
FAILED: /dev/sdb: does not exist
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<p>where /dev/sdb is the disk location</p>

PaulMB
<p>This can now be easily done by updating the storage specification directly of the Persistent Volume Claim. See these posts for reference:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/07/12/resizing-persistent-volumes-using-kubernetes/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/07/12/resizing-persistent-volumes-using-kubernetes/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dev.to/bzon/resizing-persistent-volumes-in-kubernetes-like-magic-4f96" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://dev.to/bzon/resizing-persistent-volumes-in-kubernetes-like-magic-4f96</a> (GKE example)</li>
</ul>
