How to increase disk size? (DiskPressure / Evicted Pods)

This troubleshooting guide describes how to increase the disk size in k3OS VM installed in Proxmox

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Disk can get full, having warnings such as Disk Pressure and evicted pods.

Problem

Disk is full of a k3OS VM installed in Proxmox. On these cases DiskPressure on the Node and multiple evicted pods.

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Solution

Part 1: Proxmox

  1. Increase disk space according to following tutorial: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Resize_disks

  2. See also screenshot for further commands / help

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Part 2: For OPNsense / FreeBSD

Use the following commands (after resizing in Proxmox):

  1. gpart show vtbd0
  2. gpart resize -i 3 vtbd0
  3. growfs /

See also the following images:

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Last modified February 17, 2023: update (#208) (ea731fc)