Monday, February 02, 2015

Increase EC2 disk space

Use this http://itkbcentral.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-increase-disk-space-on-existing.html
When attach volumn to instance, specify /dev/xvda


Increase Disk Space

1. Get volume id of the instance (i-cd4eb8c7) is vol-82bxx493 (instance is in west-2a)
2. Creating a Snapshot of the Volume
3. Creating a new (clone) Volume from this snapshot with large space. The new volume is vol-0ed88e1f
4. Stop instance
5. Detach old volume and attach new one (specify /dev/xvda)
6. Start instance

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