Help re: Increasing Codespace Disk space

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Hi All,

I'm building a new app have hit the limit on the disk space. I have a personal account (not an organization) and would need to increase to 64GB or more. There's no option for this in my "machine type" drop down. My options stop at 4GB. I tried altering my payment plan as per a Copilot suggestion (although I think that might have been a rouse to increase how much I spend :))

I've raised two tickets with Support but no word for several days.

Does anyone know how I might resolve this and increase the capacity for memory to 64GB?

Free 1year access to my app (currently in Beta) if you can help. ha!

Beta is at 80-85% complete and in Prod. If you feel to check out beta it's at

www.search.inc

I stupidly found myself trying to change the world. ha!!

In gratitude
Sasha
*Actually Not Evil"

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Hi Sasha,

The “4” shown in the machine-type selector is most likely 4 CPU cores, not 4 GB of disk space. Codespaces machine types bundle CPU, RAM, and storage together, so storage cannot be resized independently.

First, inside the codespace, check which resource is actually full:

df -h /workspaces
free -h

• df shows disk usage.
• free shows RAM usage.

You can then see the exact machine types GitHub currently allows for that codespace:

gh codespace list
gh api /user/codespaces/CODESPACE_NAME/machines \
  --jq '.machines[] | [.name, .display_name] | @tsv'

Replace CODESPACE_NAME with the permanent name returned by gh codespace list. If the output includes a machine with 64 GB or more of storage, switch to it with:

gh codespace edit --machine MACHINE_TYPE_NAME

GitHub will ask which codespace to update. The same operation is available at https://github.com/codespaces by selecting ... → Change machine type.

If no 64 GB machine appears in the API response, changing the payment plan alone will not add one to the dropdown. A repository can request a minimum storage size in .devcontainer/devcontainer.json:

{
  "hostRequirements": {
    "storage": "64gb"
  }
}

Commit that file and create a new codespace from the repository. This setting only filters the machine types already available to the account/repository; it cannot make an unavailable machine type appear.

Also check whether this is an unpublished codespace created from a template. GitHub does not allow changing the machine type of unpublished codespaces. In that case, publish the work to a repository and create a new codespace from that repository.

Official documentation:

• https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/customizing-your-codespace/changing-the-machine-type-for-your-codespace
• https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/setting-up-your-project-for-codespaces/configuring-dev-containers/setting-a-minimum-specification-for-codespace-machines

If you share the sanitized output of the /machines command and df -h /workspaces, we can determine whether this is a disk-capacity issue, an unavailable machine type, or an unpublished codespace limitation.

If this resolves the issue, you can mark the comment as the answer so other users can find the solution more easily.