2 months ago
Our Railway Postgres service crashed during a restore with No space left on device. I don't see a way to increase volume size so we are stuck.
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2 months ago
You likely hit the volume size limit during restore.
Railway volumes have plan-based default limits: Free = 0.5 GB, Hobby = 5 GB, Pro = 50 GB by default. Railway’s docs also say volume resizing is only available on paid plans (Hobby and Pro), and can be done from the Volume settings → Live Resize.
What to do:
- If this Postgres service is on Free, you can’t increase the volume there — you’ll need to upgrade to Hobby/Pro first.
- Then open the Postgres Volume and use Live Resize to increase capacity. Railway notes that if the disk is already at 100%, it may do an offline resize and restart the service briefly.
- After resizing, retry the restore.
Bottom line: you’re not permanently stuck, but on the Free plan there’s no self-serve path to expand Postgres storage; on Hobby/Pro there is.
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2 months ago
click on the little element (the volume) below Postgres, you can then resize your volume
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2 months ago
You likely hit the volume size limit during restore.
Railway volumes have plan-based default limits: Free = 0.5 GB, Hobby = 5 GB, Pro = 50 GB by default. Railway’s docs also say volume resizing is only available on paid plans (Hobby and Pro), and can be done from the Volume settings → Live Resize.
What to do:
- If this Postgres service is on Free, you can’t increase the volume there — you’ll need to upgrade to Hobby/Pro first.
- Then open the Postgres Volume and use Live Resize to increase capacity. Railway notes that if the disk is already at 100%, it may do an offline resize and restart the service briefly.
- After resizing, retry the restore.
Bottom line: you’re not permanently stuck, but on the Free plan there’s no self-serve path to expand Postgres storage; on Hobby/Pro there is.
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fra
click on the little element (the volume) below Postgres, you can then resize your volume
2 months ago
On Hobby, I'm getting an error where there's no way for me to increase the volume past 5 GB. Despite my plan allowing me to go up to 100 GB total is this a bug??
jasonlovesdoggo
On Hobby, I'm getting an error where there's no way for me to increase the volume past 5 GB. Despite my plan allowing me to go up to 100 GB total is this a bug??
2 months ago
Yes. Hobby only allows for 5 GB max. https://railway.com/pricing
Status changed to Solved brody • 3 months ago