Question

Droplet not working after resizing.

Hi, I’ve cloned a website and the disk got full. I went on and did a resize from 25GB to 60GB.

I can turn on/off the droplet, it says it is on 25GB but nothing is working anymore.

I went in throught console, SSH not working, did df -h and everything mentioned here: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/resize/#verifying-disk-resizes

When trying to resize with resize2fs I get this message: The filiesystem is already 6525179 (4k) blocks long. Nothing to do!

I’m stucked and I need the data on that server. It was a staging server and I did not ran backups.

thanks, Koen.

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alexdo • July 23, 2021

Hello, @koenDolphin

Can you please share the exact steps that you’ve taken and also confirm that you’ve followed the tutorial on how to resize the droplet?

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/resize

Regards, Alex

Koen Adams • March 1, 2020

Thanks, the disc was completely full and therefore the resizing somehow went wrong.

Using df -h revealed there was only 25GB used from the 80GB available and that 25Gb was completely full.

I managed to resolve it by using the DO console, that worked, and deleted some files. Then the '‘growpart /dev/vda 1’ worked and the issue was resolved without losing any data!

Thanks for your help and have a great day! best, Koen.

alexdo • February 29, 2020

Hello, @koenDolphin

What happens when you check the disk space usage on the droplet? You can check it using this command:

df -h

and

fdisk -l /dev/vda

Is the disk space increased successfully and if so, can you provide some additional information about the issue at the moment?

Let me know how it goes.

Regards, Alex

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