topic Re: resize VM in Azure upgrade reserved partition to root in Cloud Firewall

resize VM in Azure upgrade reserved partition to root

dehaasm — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:36:13 GMT

I have a newly deployed cloudguard in Azure and i am working on extending the root partition to allow future inplace upgrades.

LVM overview
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Size(GB) Used(GB) Configurable Description
lv_current 20 9 yes Check Point OS and products
lv_log 43 8 yes Logs volume
upgrade reserved 22 N/A no Reserved space for version upgrade
swap 150 N/A no Swap memory volume
unallocated space 6 N/A no Unused space
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total 241 N/A no Total size

press ENTER to continue.

I see that there is 22GB disk space reserved for future upgrades, how can i use this space and merge it with the root partitiion lv_current?

When i do resize i am unable to allocate more disk from the upgrade reserved (22GB) Partition, so how can i use this?

Re: resize VM in Azure upgrade reserved partition to root

dehaasm — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:38:04 GMT

or is it so that upgrade reserved space is automatically used when performing upgrades?

Re: resize VM in Azure upgrade reserved partition to root

Nir_Shamir — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:57:05 GMT

that space is used for snapshots during upgrades. You can't use that space.

you can only use the unallocated space:

unallocated space 6 N/A no Unused space

6GB.

Re: resize VM in Azure upgrade reserved partition to root

dehaasm — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:54:29 GMT

ok thanks but is root partition big enough to perform an in place upgrade or do i need to resize it?

Re: resize VM in Azure upgrade reserved partition to root

dehaasm — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:55:27 GMT

there is only 11GB left and i cannot add the remaining 6GB to the root only to the log partition

Re: resize VM in Azure upgrade reserved partition to root

Nir_Shamir — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:25:19 GMT

then add another disk or enlarge the current disk.

use these SK's:

How to increase the disk size of a CloudGuard VM for Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI

<https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk156552>

How to add a new hard disk to Gaia running on Azure, AWS or GCP

<https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk169153>

Re: resize VM in Azure upgrade reserved partition to root

Bob_Zimmerman — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:28:47 GMT

150 GB seems like an unreasonably huge swap partition. I can't think of any way to reduce that on a live system. It's weird enough I would probably rebuild the system soon.