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How do I expand my disk after doing a permanent resize?

Posted on April 30, 2017

Hi, I recently upgraded to the 40GB plan and I just realized that my hard drive space has not increased yet:

dev             999M     0  999M   0% /dev
run            1003M  368K 1003M   1% /run
/dev/vda3        20G   16G  2.7G  86% /
tmpfs          1003M     0 1003M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          1003M     0 1003M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs          1003M  2.3M 1001M   1% /tmp
tmpfs           201M     0  201M   0% /run/user/1000

How can I resolve this?



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Hi @chenshuiluke Did you just upgrade CPU+RAM or did you upgrade CPU+RAM+Disk, where the process takes several minutes to complete? It should expand automatically unless you’ve modified the partitions manually. But I don’t know Arch, so maybe that process is manual. Can check the DigitalOcean control panel, click the droplet for more information, and it should state the amount of RAM, disk space and region right under the droplet name in the top.

Hi @hansen, I upgraded cpu+ram+disk. It should be noted that my system was originally a Debian system but I used the Arch conversion script to convert it to an arch box. I checked in my control panel and it says it has 40GB.

Hello, I’m experiencing the same… did 3 resizes from 25Gb until 80… Still it shows me 25… can someone help me?

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