Add intro description of boot disk

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Jordan Bradford
2023-06-05 10:53:12 -04:00
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## Increasing your boot disk size ## Increasing your boot disk size
Boot disks contain the operating system and boot loader for your TLJH instance. If you followed
the [Google Cloud TLJH installation instructions](#install-google) then you created a virtual machine
with one disk: a boot disk that will _also_ be used to hold user data in your hub. For various reasons
you may need to change your boot disk size.
Google Cloud Compute Engine supports _increasing_ (but not _decreasing_) the size of existing disks. Google Cloud Compute Engine supports _increasing_ (but not _decreasing_) the size of existing disks.
If you selected a boot disk with a supported version of **Ubuntu** or **Debian** as the operating If you selected a boot disk with a supported version of **Ubuntu** or **Debian** as the operating
system, then your boot disk can be resized easily from the console with these steps. system, then your boot disk can be resized easily from the console with these steps.