How do I downgrade my vps to lower plan?
Hello, I also would like to shrink my linode VPS (currently 4 CPU Cores and 160 GB storage) to 12USD(1CPU,RAM 2GB, 50 GB ) plan. I checked with df -h and found the storage I used is around 70GB so that I delete some unused files to make fit with the plan I want to resize. Now, there is only 9.7 G in use.
root@localhost:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 158G 9.7G 140G 7% /
devtmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.9G 385M 3.5G 10% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 794M 0 794M 0% /run/user/0
But I cannot downgrade to the lower plan which has 80 GB and still showing the error message
The current disk size of your Linode is too large for the new service plan. Please resize your disk to accommodate the new plan.
Is there something I missed out in the process of downgrading? Please kindly help me.
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jhartman
Linode Staff
This is a common issue customers face when attempting to downsize their Linode plans that comes down to the difference between the disk space currently in use versus your Linode's current disk allocation size. While the command df -h shows an internal view of the disk space that you have used, it sounds like you still need to downsize your Linode's disk alllocation before you are able to then successfully downsize your Linode Plan
For more information, check out this other Community post that discusses this same issue: