how to increase disk size in aws ec2 instance

First of all let’s connect to our EC2 instance using ssh, and check the current disk size by below following command.

$ sudo df -h
$ sudo lsblk

 

Step 1) Click On volumes under "Elastic Block Store"

 

Step 2) Click on Action >> Click on Modify Volume

 

Step 3) here write the increase size >> and click on modify

note:- Current size is 8GB and increase size will 10GB

 

Step 4) Check the increased disk size.

$ sudo lsblk 

 

Step 5)  Use the growpart command to extend the partition. 

Note:- there is a space between the device name and the partition number.

$ sudo growpart /dev/xvda 1

 

Step 6) Use the resize2fs command that allows you to resize ext2, ext3, or ext4 file systems.

$ sudo resize2fs /dev/xvda1

 

Step 7) Now check the increased file system size.

$ sudo df -h