Question

Resizing volume is not available even when the droplet is powered off

Posted on October 21, 2017
Block Storage Ubuntu 16.04
Asked by tonyoo

The “Resize volume” menu item is greyed out.

Even if I power off the droplet, it is still greyed out. I remember I did resize this volume a few months ago using these instructions https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-increase-the-size-of-a-digitalocean-block-storage-volume. Anything changed?

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vbrodrigo • November 17, 2017

Accepted Answer

First: Shutdown your droplet! Then, click with right button in “Resize volume” and go to “Inspect element” (in Safari, or equivalent in other browsers)… remove ‘class=“is-disabled”’, and the button changes to “available”… click and choose your new size!

OriIdan • November 14, 2017

I found that I can resize the volume by detaching it from the droplet, then go to the volumes tab and then you will see the resize active. Before detaching the volume, make sure you unmount it in the droplet to make sure you will not have any data corrupted.

sebastianvicuna • November 17, 2017

Great solution!