---
title: "Increase the workspace size"
description: "Grow a TIR Instance's workspace disk at /home/jovyan while it keeps running, up to your account's limit in the region."
content_type: "how-to"
product: "tir-instance"
platform: "TIR"
url: "/tir/tir-instance/how-to/increase-the-workspace-size/"
topic: ["power-and-lifecycle"]
---

# Increase the workspace size

The workspace is the instance's own disk, mounted at `/home/jovyan`, and the place where files
survive stops, starts, and restarts. When it fills up and writing under `/home/jovyan` fails with
`no space left on device`, or before a large download, make it bigger on the instance's
**Workspace Size** tab. The instance can keep running while you do.

## Before you begin

- An instance in any status except **Saving Image**. The **Workspace Size** tab is hidden while the
  instance is **Pending** or **Expired**.
- Permission to update instances in the project. Every project role except **MEMBER** has it, and a
  **MEMBER** needs a policy that allows updates.

Choose the size with care. A workspace can only grow: once you increase it, it keeps the new size
for as long as the instance exists. The first 30 GB of every workspace are free. Each GB above 30 GB
has a monthly price, charged for the hours the workspace exists. That includes the hours the
instance is stopped, until you delete it. The larger size is billed from the moment you resize. See
[pricing](https://www.e2enetworks.com/pricing).

The workspace can be up to your account's limit in the instance's region, which is 15,000 GB unless
E2E has set a different limit for your account.

## Choose the new size

1. In **Manage Instances**, select the instance's name, then open the **Workspace Size** tab.
2. Set a new size, larger than the current one and at most your limit, with the slider in steps of
   10 GB or by typing any whole number of GB.
3. Select **Update**. On a **Running** instance, confirm in **Resize Workspace**. On an instance in
   any other status, TIR updates the size straight away.

The new size can take a few minutes to take effect.

## Check the new size

While the instance is **Running**, open its **Monitoring** tab. **Workspace Usage** shows
how much of the workspace is used and its total size. When the total matches your new size, the
extra space is ready to use in `/home/jovyan`.

## Ask for more than your limit

When the workspace reaches your account's limit, the **Workspace Size** tab offers **Request**.
Select it to ask E2E to review a larger limit.

## Keep large files in the workspace or mounted storage

A bigger workspace helps only with files you write in `/home/jovyan`. Files written outside
`/home/jovyan` and your mounts fill the plan's ephemeral storage instead, which is cleared on every
restart. When it is full, the instance restarts and loses those files. Put large data in
`/home/jovyan`, on a dataset, or on a file system you mount. See [Where your files
live](/tir/tir-instance/concepts/where-your-files-live/) and [Mount datasets and file
systems](/tir/tir-instance/how-to/mount-datasets-and-file-systems/).

You can also choose a larger workspace from the start when you [create an
instance](/tir/tir-instance/how-to/create-an-instance/). If the instance reports that its disk is
full, or the new size does not show, see [Troubleshooting TIR
Instances](/tir/tir-instance/troubleshooting/tir-instance/).