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Why is it not possible to downgrade the disk size for KVM VPS in SolusVM?

Bato Tsydenov
Updated March 21, 2023 19:34

Applicable to:

  • SolusVM

Question 

Why is it not possible to downgrade the disk size for KVM VPS in SolusVM?

Upon attempt to downgrade there is an error in SolusVM:

SVM_ERROR: Hdd space must be more than current, you can only upgrade 

Answer

This is expected behavior. Restriction for downgrade has been made in order to avoid a data loss on the VPS.

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