Resizing Amazon AWS EC2 instance hard drive

Resize EC2 HDD.md

• SSH into instance, see where HDD is mounted (/dev/sda1?)
• Stop instance
• Detach volume
• Create snapshot
• Create new volume from snapshot
• Attach new volume as /dev/sda1 (or similar)
• SSH into the volume: sudo resize2fs /dev/sda1

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9306829/increasing-aws-ec2-ubuntu-instance-disk-space

To mount an additional drive

sudo mkdir -m 000 /vol
echo "/dev/xvdf /vol auto noatime 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
sudo mount /vol

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11535617/add-ebs-to-ubuntu-ec2-instance