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Combine volumes to expand / capacity.

Posted on August 21, 2017

Hello,

I have a droplet and the hard drive which is mounted on / is 30 Gb. I have added a 100 Gb volume which is mounted under /mnt/… I want to combine the 2 volumes and increase the overall capacity of / to 130 Gb.

thanks in advance



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@pskout

Right now, merging two volumes is not possible unfortunately. You would need to either resize the 100GB volume and then migrate the data from the 30GB over, or create a 130GB volume and migrate the data from both over to the new one.

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