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Why does my Volume show up only as 380MB?

Posted on February 25, 2020

This questions comes up with users of Volumes every once in a while:

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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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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