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Resizing Droplet problems, no actual size increase

So, I resize my droplet from 80GB to 160GB because I ran out of space. However the system is still saying there is no space. I did a disk check (df / -h) from the command prompt and it still showing 80GB. When verifying disk size (gdisk -l /dev/vda) it shows 160GB.
Image Ubuntu plesk Size 4 vCPUs 8GB / 160GB Disk ($48/mo)

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alexdo
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• July 27, 2022

Hello, @andrejellyfish

You can check our article on How to resize droplets

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

In certain cases, a disk resize fails to resize the Droplet’s partition or filesystem. If you rerun df -h after a disk resizes and the output is unchanged, this usually indicates a problem.

To resize the partition, use the growpart command. In this command, /dev/vda is the name of the disk, separated by a space, and followed by the number of the partition to resize, 1.

  1. growpart /dev/vda 1

The command to resize the filesystem depends on the filesystem type. If you don’t know what filesystem you’re using, check with df:

  1. df -Th /dev/vda1

You can see the filesystem type in the second column of the output. The following example output shows the filesystem type is ext4.

Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1      ext4   50G  4.0G   45G  10% /

For ext3/4 filesystems, use resize2fs to resize the filesystem.

  1. resize2fs /dev/vda1

For XFS, use xfs_growfs to resize the filesystem.

  1. xfs_growfs /dev/vda1

If there is more than one partition on the disk, you may have to modify the above commands to more closely match the Droplet’s partition table. Partitions are numbered, so if you want to grow a specific partition, use its number in the growpart /dev/vda command, i.e. growpart /dev/vda 2 grows the second partition.

Regards