Merge pull request #66355 from krunaljain/automated-cherry-pick-of-#66172-#66324-upstream-release-1.10

Automatic merge from submit-queue.

Automated cherry pick of #66172: Reverting commit #56600 as GCE PD is allocated in chunks of #66324: Fixing E2E tests for disk resizing

Cherry pick of #66172 #66324 on release-1.10.

#66172: Reverting commit #56600 as GCE PD is allocated in chunks of
#66324: Fixing E2E tests for disk resizing

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