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I have a default amazon ec2 instance with 8GB root volume size. I am running out of space. I have:

  1. Detach the current EBS volume in AWS Management Console (Web).
  2. Create snapshot of this volume.
  3. Created a new Volume with 50G space with my snapshot.
  4. Attach the new volume back to the instance to /dev/sda1

However, when I reconnect to the account with:

> df -h

I can see from the management console that my new 

Filesystem     1K-blocks      Used   Available  Use%  Mounted on
/dev/xvda1       8256952   8173624        0     100%  /
tmpfs            308508        40    308468     1%    /dev/shm

It's still not using my new volume's size, how to make this work?

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  • Did you mount the new EBS volume?
    – Arun Kumar Arjunan
    Jun 27, 2011 at 11:06
  • I guess it is a question for ServerFault rather then StackOverflow.
    – Jacek Konieczny
    Jun 27, 2011 at 11:17

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You have enlarged the volume, but the filesystem size has remained the same. You should resize the file system. If it is ext3 and the kernel supports on-line resize this should work:

resize2fs /dev/xvda1
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