Applies to: ✔️ Linux VMs ✔️ Flexible scale sets This article describes how to expand managed disks for a Linux virtual machine (VM). You can add data disks to provide for more storage space, and you can also expand an existing data disk. The default virtual hard disk size for the operating system (OS) is typically 30 GB on a Linux VM in Azure. This article covers expanding either OS disks or data
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