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Expanding volume size of EC2 AWS Instance
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Steps

--- AWS Dashboard EBS Step ---

  1. Log into your AWS account and navigate to EC2

  2. View Instance Details looking for the Root Device and Block Devices to identify the volume you want to resize

  3. Click the storage Device and select the EBS ID

  4. While in the Volumes panel click Actions at the top of the page

  5. Select Modify Volume to modify that particular volume

  6. Enter the desired volume size in GBs and click modify, yes to confirm

  7. SSH into your Instance

--- Command Steps ---

  1. Run lsblk to list available blocks (volumes) and note the volume size / names

  2. Run sudo growpart /dev/volumename 1 on the volume you want to resize, in our case it was sudo growpart /dev/xvda 1

  3. Run sudo resize2fs /dev/xvda1 to expand file system

  4. Check new size with df -h command

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