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doctl compute volume-action resize

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Usage 

doctl compute volume-action resize <volume-id> [flags]

Aliases 

r

Description

Resizes a block storage volume.

Volumes may only be resized upwards. The maximum size for a volume is 16TiB.

Example

The following example resizes a volume with the UUID f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6 to 120 GiB in the nyc1 region:

doctl compute volume-action resize f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6 --size 120 --region nyc1

Flags

Option Description
--help, -h Help for this command
--region The volume’s current region (required)
--size The volume’s new size, in GiB (required)
Default: 0
--wait Instructs the terminal to wait for the volume to complete resizing before returning control to the user
Default: false
Command Description
doctl compute volume-action Display commands to perform actions on a volume

Global Flags

Option Description
--access-token, -t API V2 access token
--api-url, -u Override default API endpoint
--config, -c Specify a custom config file
Default:
    --context Specify a custom authentication context name
    --http-retry-max Set maximum number of retries for requests that fail with a 429 or 500-level error
    Default: 5
    --http-retry-wait-max Set the minimum number of seconds to wait before retrying a failed request
    Default: 30
    --http-retry-wait-min Set the maximum number of seconds to wait before retrying a failed request
    Default: 1
    --interactive Enable interactive behavior. Defaults to true if the terminal supports it (default false)
    Default: false
    --output, -o Desired output format [text|json]
    Default: text
    --trace Show a log of network activity while performing a command
    Default: false
    --verbose, -v Enable verbose output
    Default: false

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