How to reduce size of the OS Disk when creating a virtual machine in the Azure Portal

If you’re creating a virtual machine in Azure the portal will create the OS disk as 128GB which can result in a lot of wasted space and unnecessary cost BUT….

To create a 32GB drive, change the image to one with ‘[smalldisk]’ in its name…


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