How to Create and Set Up Volumes for Use with Droplets
Create a new volume from the control panel, format it to create its filesystem, then attach and mount it to a Droplet to use it.
Volume How-Tos
Generated on 5 May 2025
Volumes are network-based block devices that provide additional data storage for Droplets. You can move them between Droplets, create disk images of them, and resize them at any time.
Getting Started
How to Move Volumes between Droplets
Move volumes between Droplets in the same region, or use snapshots to move volumes to Droplets in different regions.
How to Increase the Size of DigitalOcean Volumes Block Storage
Scale up the amount of storage space available on a volume.
Volume Management
How to Mount Volumes
Mount a formatted volume to make its filesystem accessible to the Droplet it’s attached to.
How to Unmount Volumes
Unmount volumes before resizing or detaching them to protect data integrity.
How to Detach Volumes
Detach a volume to remove it from its current Droplet, which lets you reattach it to a different Droplet.
How to Delete Volumes
Delete a volume to permanently and irreversibly destroy the volume and its contents.
Volume Partition Management
How to Create Partitions on DigitalOcean Volumes Block Storage
Partition volumes to divide a single storage device into smaller units that you can manage independently.
How to Expand Partitions After Resizing a Volume
After you resize a partitioned volume to increase its available amount of disk, rewrite the partition table and expand the filesystem to use the new space.