Question
How to increase disk storage in same droplet?
- Posted on June 11, 2020
- StorageBlock StorageUbuntu 18.04
Asked by amanullah
I’ve increased my disk storage. But my storage shows in a different folder in filesystem. Previously my disk storage was 49 GB. Now increased another 30 GB. Previous 49 GB shows in /dev/vda1 location and new 30GB shows in /dev/sda location. How do I merge this 49GB + 30GB in the same location /dev/vda1
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 984M 0 984M 0% /dev
tmpfs 200M 21M 179M 11% /run
/dev/vda1 49G 49G 0 100% /
tmpfs 997M 0 997M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 997M 0 997M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/vda15 105M 3.6M 101M 4% /boot/efi
/dev/sda 30G 6.1G 23G 22% /mnt/volume_sgp1_01
tmpfs 200M 0 200M 0% /run/user/0
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Hi there @amanullah,
It looks like you have added block storage rather than increasing the disk space of your Droplet.
You could do a couple of things in this case:
You could either move some of your files from the
/dev/vda1disk to the/dev/vda15diskOr instead, you could resize your Droplet directly without using a block storage
You can follow the steps on how to do that here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/resize/
wp-content/uploadsdirectory so that all of your files would be uploaded to the block storage rather than the disk space of the Droplet itself.Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby