Virtual private servers or VPS such as Linode, where this site is hosted, allow users the ability to resize their disk images. Resizing allows you to allocate more storage to a disk image so you can store more files, or shrink a disk image so you have more storage for the other disk images in your account.

Here’s a quick checklist on how to resize a disk image in Linode.

1. Log in to the Linode Manager.
2. Click the Linodes tab. A list of your virtual private servers appears.
3. Select a Linode. The Linode’s dashboard appears.
4. Click Shut down to turn your Linode off.
5. Select the disk image you want to resize. The Edit Disk Image webpage appears.
6. In the New Size field, enter a different size for the disk image in megabytes.
7. Click Save Changes. The Linode’s dashboard appears.
8. Click Boot to turn on the Linode.
9. You have successfully resized the disk image.