20 days 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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20 days 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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20 days ago
click on the little element (the volume) below Postgres, you can then resize your volume
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20 days 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
20 days 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??
20 days ago
Yes. Hobby only allows for 5 GB max. https://railway.com/pricing
Status changed to Solved brody • 20 days ago