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Why does my Volume show up only as 380MB?

Posted February 25, 2020 1.5k views
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Users will create a Volume and choose to auto format it and when ssh-ing into their droplet they’ll see the volume as 380MB.

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meskinazi February 25, 2020

If you added a volume and it only shows 380MB in size, expand your partition like in this how-to guide How to Expand Partitions After Resizing a Volume

Also, please report the error to support by opening a ticket here and share your /var/log/syslog files

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  • infoqrakz March 4, 2020

    add 100 Gb volume

    syslog
    Mar 4 18:46:26 hBT9Yeh8 kernel: [194953.255760] scsi 2:0:0:3: Direct-Access DO Volume 1.5. PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
    Mar 4 18:46:26 hBT9Yeh8 kernel: [194953.267586] sd 2:0:0:3: Power-on or device reset occurred
    Mar 4 18:46:27 hBT9Yeh8 kernel: [194953.274123] sd 2:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
    Mar 4 18:46:27 hBT9Yeh8 kernel: [194953.277711] sd 2:0:0:3: [sdd] 209715200 512-byte logical blocks: (107 GB/100 GiB)
    Mar 4 18:46:27 hBT9Yeh8 kernel: [194953.288153] sd 2:0:0:3: [sdd] Write Protect is off
    Mar 4 18:46:27 hBT9Yeh8 kernel: [194953.293499] sd 2:0:0:3: [sdd] Mode Sense: 63 00 00 08
    Mar 4 18:46:27 hBT9Yeh8 kernel: [194953.303489] sd 2:0:0:3: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn’t support DPO or FUA
    Mar 4 18:46:27 hBT9Yeh8 kernel: [194953.315020] sd 2:0:0:3: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk

    Mar 4 18:47:37 hBT9Yeh8 kernel: [195023.518149] EXT4-fs (sdd): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: discard

    root@hBT9Yeh8:~# df -h | grep test2
    /dev/sdd 380M 13M 333M 4% /mnt/test2

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