Storage Expansion Help: Adding Volume to Running Enhance Instance

aymanaaoun

Hi everyone,

I'm running Enhance on a Digital Ocean droplet and need some guidance on the safest way to expand storage. Here's my current situation:

Current Setup:

Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Root partition (/dev/vda1): 160GB total, 141GB used (91% full)
Have a new 100GB volume attached but not yet integrated
/var/www is on the root partition and running out of space

My Requirements:

Need to expand storage for /var/www
Prefer minimal to no downtime
Have backups in place
Service is currently running in production

Technical Details:

df -h /var/www
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1       155G  141G   15G  91% /

I've already attached a 100GB volume through Digital Ocean's dashboard, but I need advice on the best way to integrate it with my running Enhance instance.

What's the recommended approach for expanding storage on a running Enhance instance?

Any guidance or experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Rich

I wouldn't suggest this was a good idea. Adding extra volume storage is known as a block device. It's effectively network storage. It's great for creating new partitions but not for trying to expand your root partition via LVM. You'd of been better scaling to a larger VPS and then resizing both the root partition and the filesystem. That said I don't think DO lets you do that. Usually when you scale it keeps the volume the same as it's highly suspectable to being messed up if the commands aren't issued right.

You might be able to take a snapshot and then rebuild into a larger offering. Again it's possibly dicey. Do tougher research. I've not used DO in awhile now.

Since this leaves you in a bit of bind I would imagine, I recommend using a separate VPS adding it to your cluster and moving some sites off from it. That is effectively the point of enhance, it's to use more severs not more /home directories. (as cpanel etc.. would do)

hwcltjn

Rich is right, Enhance is so flexible, it's just easier to provision a larger sever and move your sites to it instead.