[LRUG] [devops] enlarge root volume on existing ec2 instance

[Viktor Trón]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Viktor Trón <viktor.tron at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to both of you.
>
> I followed the steps used in Fred's excellent ref
> http://alestic.com/2010/02/ec2-resize-running-ebs-root
> It is using ec2 command line tools so geekproof.
> FYI: you no longer need to run the resize2fs command on your instance, it
> is automatically grown for you (at least on my ubuntu 12.04)
>
> If you cringe at the command line but like clicking, the same process can
> be done via the aws web console demonstrated in the well-suited medium of a
> screencast here: http://alestic.com/2010/02/ec2-resize-running-ebs-root
>
> EDIT: screencast here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouYjQ3_I3BA


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> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Frederick Cheung <
> frederick.cheung at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 19 Jul 2013, at 12:32, Viktor Trón <viktor.tron at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > slightly off topic, but encouraged by recent devops wisdom.
>> >
>> > We need to have bigger disk on an existing ec2 instance.
>> >
>> > One approach even reading about gives me headache
>> >
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/550790/growing-amazon-ebs-volume-sizes
>> > the accepted answer is from 2009 and lots of controversy.
>> >
>> > Another approach that might work is to turn off the instance (stop not
>> terminate), create an AMI image from it then relaunch with a larger disk.
>> >
>>
>> You can't change an EBS volume's size: you need to snapshot it and create
>> a new volume from the snapshot. Once that's done you need to resize the
>> filesystem. Whether that can be done on the root volume depends on the
>> filesystem (i think recentish file systems like ext4 are fine). Eric
>> Hammond has a walkthrough of this here:
>> http://alestic.com/2010/02/ec2-resize-running-ebs-root
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> > any guidance appreciated.
>> > Vik
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