40Gb Linode is created with 5Gb - only just noticed

Was this a linode restored from a backup by any chance?

i'm pretty sure linode reserve the whole amount, allocated or not, they don't over sell space.

Just arrange a planned outage, and resize, can't do much else about it now.

All hosting plans except the well engineered redundant ones have planned outages.

the last time I created a new node, it allocated all the space, so I don't know what happened with you

if it was restored from a backup, it'd have no free space i believe (but I don't use linode backups)

Right, you prompted me to check something… my first 40Gb Linode has all the space allocated. This second one has only 5Gb. I created this second one by restoring a backup from the first… so I guess in that restore process there was a setting maybe to choose the space, but I must have just assumed it would use the full amount and left it at default. I will look out for it next time.

Thanks

There is no prompt to select the restored image size. The Linode Backup Service only restores a disk image large enough to contain all of the backed up data. If you need this disk image to be larger, you'll need to use the disk resize function after the restore has been finished.

-Tim

so it sounds like you restored the backup then deleted 2.5G of data.

Ah right, that explains it. So I restored a backup, the Linode creates enough space for that only, the rest unallocated.

Thats fine, I know now for next time, I need to then resize it after restore before putting live sites on to save downtime later.

I did delete some files after yes, must have been 2.5Gb, the original server is running at about 5Gb.

All makes sense now!

Thanks