diff --git a/backend/src/routes/api/cluster-settings/clusterSettingsUtils.ts b/backend/src/routes/api/cluster-settings/clusterSettingsUtils.ts
index fd04cd2ae6..d5165d0425 100644
--- a/backend/src/routes/api/cluster-settings/clusterSettingsUtils.ts
+++ b/backend/src/routes/api/cluster-settings/clusterSettingsUtils.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 import { FastifyRequest } from 'fastify';
+import { scaleDeploymentConfig } from '../../../utils/deployment';
 import { KubeFastifyInstance, ClusterSettings } from '../../../types';
 
+const name = 'jupyterhub-cfg';
+
 export const updateClusterSettings = async (
   fastify: KubeFastifyInstance,
   request: FastifyRequest,
@@ -9,9 +12,10 @@ export const updateClusterSettings = async (
   const namespace = fastify.kube.namespace;
   const query = request.query as { [key: string]: string };
   try {
+    const jupyterhubCM = await coreV1Api.readNamespacedConfigMap(name, namespace);
     if (query.pvcSize) {
       await coreV1Api.patchNamespacedConfigMap(
-        'jupyterhub-cfg',
+        name,
         namespace,
         {
           data: { singleuser_pvc_size: `${query.pvcSize}Gi` },
@@ -26,6 +30,9 @@ export const updateClusterSettings = async (
           },
         },
       );
+      if (jupyterhubCM.body.data.singleuser_pvc_size.replace('Gi', '') !== query.pvcSize) {
+        await scaleDeploymentConfig(fastify, 'jupyterhub', 0);
+      }
     }
     return { success: true, error: null };
   } catch (e) {
@@ -42,7 +49,7 @@ export const getClusterSettings = async (
   const coreV1Api = fastify.kube.coreV1Api;
   const namespace = fastify.kube.namespace;
   try {
-    const clusterSettingsRes = await coreV1Api.readNamespacedConfigMap('jupyterhub-cfg', namespace);
+    const clusterSettingsRes = await coreV1Api.readNamespacedConfigMap(name, namespace);
     return {
       pvcSize: Number(clusterSettingsRes.body.data.singleuser_pvc_size.replace('Gi', '')),
     };
diff --git a/backend/src/routes/api/status/index.ts b/backend/src/routes/api/status/index.ts
index c8ae9d31e6..c2e6e41b86 100644
--- a/backend/src/routes/api/status/index.ts
+++ b/backend/src/routes/api/status/index.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ type groupObjResponse = {
   users: string[];
 };
 
+type groupObjResponse = {
+  users: string[];
+};
+
 const status = async (
   fastify: KubeFastifyInstance,
   request: FastifyRequest,
diff --git a/backend/src/utils/deployment.ts b/backend/src/utils/deployment.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e94a8e8a16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/utils/deployment.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import { KubeFastifyInstance } from '../types';
+
+export const scaleDeploymentConfig = async (
+  fastify: KubeFastifyInstance,
+  name: string,
+  replicas: number,
+): Promise<void> => {
+  const customObjectsApi = fastify.kube.customObjectsApi;
+  const group = 'apps.openshift.io';
+  const version = 'v1';
+  const plural = 'deploymentconfigs';
+  const namespace = fastify.kube.namespace;
+  try {
+    const res = await customObjectsApi.getNamespacedCustomObject(
+      group,
+      version,
+      namespace,
+      plural,
+      name,
+    );
+    const deployment: any = res.body;
+
+    deployment.spec.replicas = replicas;
+
+    await customObjectsApi.replaceNamespacedCustomObject(
+      group,
+      version,
+      namespace,
+      plural,
+      name,
+      deployment,
+    );
+  } catch (e) {
+    throw new Error('Error scale the deployment pods: ' + e.message);
+  }
+};