Thank you Wilman your commands worked correctly, small improvement need to be considered if we are increasing EBSs into larger sizes
- Stop the instance
- Create a snapshot from the volume
- Create a new volume based on the snapshot increasing the size
- Check and remember the current's volume mount point (i.e.
/dev/sda1)
- Detach current volume
- Attach the recently created volume to the instance, setting the exact mount point
- Restart the instance
Access via SSH to the instance and run fdisk /dev/xvde
WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
sectors (command 'u')
Hit p to show current partitions
- Hit d to delete current partitions (if there are more than one, you have to delete one at a time) NOTE: Don't worry data is not lost
- Hit n to create a new partition
- Hit p to set it as primary
- Hit 1 to set the first cylinder
- Set the desired new space (if empty the whole space is reserved)
- Hit a to make it bootable
- Hit 1 and w to write changes
- Reboot instance OR use
partprobe (from the parted package) to tell the kernel about the new partition table
- Log via SSH and run resize2fs /dev/xvde1
- Finally check the new space running df -h