How to Resize Root Partition on Linux in Amazon EC2

1. How do I expand the EBS root volume of my EC2 Linux instance?
2. How do I expand the Amazon EBS root volume of my Amazon EC2 Ubuntu?
3. How do I increase root volume in AWS?
4. How do I increase disk space on Amazon Linux?
5. How do I reduce the size of my EBS volume?
6. How do I resize an EBS volume?
7. How do I resize volume on AWS?
8. How do I add more storage to EC2 instance?
9. Which block drives can't be used for root volumes?
10. What is AWS root volume?
11. How do I increase the root partition size in Linux?
12. How do I add volume to AWS EC2?

How do I expand the EBS root volume of my EC2 Linux instance?

Login to Ec2 console and select the EC2 instance for which root volume needs to increased. Under “Description” tab, you will see root device name “/dev/xvda”, click it. It will now open a small pop up box containing this volume information.

How do I expand the Amazon EBS root volume of my Amazon EC2 Ubuntu?

Modifying Volume on AWS Management Console

On our EC2 dashboard, click on Volumes under ELASTIC BLOCK STORE section on the left. Here, we need to select the volume attached to our instance and click on Modify from the Actions . You can see the screenshot below. Simply, increase the size in the modal window opened.

How do I increase root volume in AWS?

Expand the EBS root volume of EC2 Linux running on a current generation instance without detaching and reattaching the volume by using the Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes feature. To expand the EBS root volume of EC2 Linux running on a previous generation instance, you must detach and then reattach the volume.

How do I increase disk space on Amazon Linux?

Now that you have stopped the instance from running, simply navigate to Elastic Block Store -> Volumes. Check the box on the volume you want to increase and click the Actions button. Click the Modify Volume option and enter the number of GB you want in the Size field. Click the Modify button once you're done.

How do I reduce the size of my EBS volume?

Reducing AWS EBS Volumes

1. Create a snapshot of the root volume: Create a second Amazon EBS volume: ...
2. Create an empty 8GB Amazon EBS volume in the same availability zone. attach both volumes to the instance and again note all device name details. ...
3. Restart the Instance and SSH in. ...
4. Stop the instance.

How do I resize an EBS volume?

Resizing Your EBS: How to Shrink a Volume

Unfortunately, EBS Elastic Volumes does not support volume size reduction. Shrinking a volume within Amazon will require creating a new volume, attaching it to the running instance, and copying all the data to it—tedious work.

How do I resize volume on AWS?

Let's assume that previous volume size is 30GB and we want increase it to 40GB.

1. Right click on the volume you wish to increase.
2. Add your desired size; In our example type 40.
3. Click Modify.
4. You will get confirmation to extend OS file system.
5. Click Yes.

How do I add more storage to EC2 instance?

In Step 1: Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), select the AMI to use and choose Select. Follow the wizard to complete Step 1: Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), Step 2: Choose an Instance Type, and Step 3: Configure Instance Details. In Step 4: Add Storage, modify the existing entries as needed.

Which block drives can't be used for root volumes?

Some of Amazon EBS volume hard drives can't be used as root volumes. Typically block drives are known for running database system or operating systems. EBS volume HDDs comes in two types and 5 different configurations.

What is AWS root volume?

When you launch an instance, the root device volume contains the image used to boot the instance. When we introduced Amazon EC2, all AMIs were backed by Amazon EC2 instance store, which means the root device for an instance launched from the AMI is an instance store volume created from a template stored in Amazon S3.

How do I increase the root partition size in Linux?

7) Resizing the active root partition in Linux

Select the root partition you want to resize. In this case, we only have one partition that belongs to the root partition, so we choose to resize it. Press the Resize/Move button to resize the selected partition.

How do I add volume to AWS EC2?

Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/ .

1. In the navigation pane, choose Elastic Block Store, Volumes.
2. Select an available volume and choose Actions, Attach Volume.
3. For Instance, start typing the name or ID of the instance.