{"id":13080,"date":"2023-04-01T04:46:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T08:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=13080"},"modified":"2023-04-01T04:46:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T08:46:49","slug":"digitalocean-increase-volume-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/digitalocean-increase-volume-size\/","title":{"rendered":"DigitalOcean Increase Volume Size of Block Storage Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
As we quickly show you how to increase volume size of DigitalOcean Block Storage it is important to know what volumes are. Volumes are network-based block devices that provide additional data storage for DigitalOcean Droplets. Volumes can be move between Droplets and they can be resized by increasing their size at any time. To protect data you cannot decrease the size of a volume. If you need a smaller volume it is best to export the data to a new smaller volume then attach that to your droplet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you need more storage space than your current volume provides, you can either attach additional volumes to the same Droplet or expand the size of a current volume. In most cases the latter is more desirable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are two steps to Increasing the size of a volume:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before resizing, it is strongly recommend that you take a snapshot of the volume before resizing. This is because any changes to a filesystem<\/a> can lead to data loss if something goes wrong. The snapshot can be deleted after confirming that the resize was successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\nResize the Volume<\/h2>\n\n\n\n