How to resize/increase EBS Volume in AWS?

How to resize/increase EBS Volume in AWS?

In Simple Steps

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  • I have an EBS of 10 GB and a root EBS of 8 GB, Before resize

  • Open AWS Console > Elastic Block Storage > Volumes.

  • Select the volume which you are going to increase, click on Actions now click on Modify Volume.

  • Now Enter the Volume Size and Click on Modify.

  • Now your Volume is increased, but you can only access its 10 GB only you can't use 16 GB of volume, follow the below steps to take so.

  • Now SSH to the EC2 and go to the root directory and type < resize2fs /dev/xvdb

    Note:- xvdb is my volume name. You can check your volume name by typing in terminal

$lsblk 
NAME     MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0      7:0    0 24.4M  1 loop /snap/amazon-ssm-agent/6312
loop1      7:1    0 55.6M  1 loop /snap/core18/2632
loop2      7:2    0 63.2M  1 loop /snap/core20/1695
loop3      7:3    0  103M  1 loop /snap/lxd/23541
loop4      7:4    0 49.6M  1 loop /snap/snapd/17883
xvda     202:0    0    8G  0 disk 
├─xvda1  202:1    0  7.9G  0 part /
├─xvda14 202:14   0    4M  0 part 
└─xvda15 202:15   0  106M  0 part /boot/efi
xvdb     202:16   0   16G  0 disk /newVolume  <- my ebs

  • Done!!