Question
How Increase The Volume size
- Posted on August 27, 2022
- Ubuntu 22.04
Asked by AdorableAquamarineYacht
I resize my droplet and after do that I followed the instructions in
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/resize/
but when I reach to step growpart /dev/vda 1
I faced error
NOCHANGE: partition 1 is size 20744159. it cannot be grown
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Hi @adorableaquamarineyacht,
When resizing the Droplet, the block device is increased when the resize uses the CPU, Memory and Disk option. In most cases, the next boot will detect this within the software running on the Droplet and kick off some steps to update this.
This can fail however at 100% disk usage ( as some space is still required for temporary files ) or when the particular release of software installed on the Droplet doesn’t accomplish this. The platform isn’t able to determine this, however, as we limit the access to the partition/data of the Droplet. You can however address this after clearing up sufficient space to operate with these steps:
Check the current filesystem size of /dev/vda1: lsblk
If you see the block device is larger than the partition, you will need to grow the primary partition of your Droplet:
You should now be fully utilizing the space.
Don’t forget to do a quick Snapshot of your current state just in case anything goes bad!