Comments on: Enlarge Amazon EBS Volume

By: Enlarging Amazon EBS Volume - Ext3 Ext4 Tutorial

Enlarging Amazon EBS Volume - Ext3 Ext4 Tutorial — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:12:21 +0000

[...] Here is a good tutorial show you how to Enlarge Amazon EBS Volume: The easiest way enlarge an EBS volume is obviously by creating a snapshot ,create a new volume using that snapshot with a higher capacity. Unfortunately, once you mount the new EBS volume,you will notice that it’s size is the same. Below are the tips how to fix it. [...]

By: rodney

rodney — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:19:11 +0000

I haven’t tried sfdisk but glad sfdisk work for you.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:25:59 +0000

This process failed to work for me. My volume was somehow getting overwritten and corrupted by the fdisk program. As a result, e2fsck was yielding a “bad magic number” error on the new partition, and the volume had to be junked.

However, using the “sfdisk” program instead of “fdisk” seems to have solved the problem.

By: Vaibhav Puranik

Vaibhav Puranik — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:11:20 +0000

Here is a tutorial that explains the same process using all the api calls -http://aws-musings.com/how-to-expand-your-ebs-volume/

By: Booting from EBS Image Creation

Booting from EBS Image Creation — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:12:12 +0000

[...] I have posted before how to increase or enlarge the resize EBS volumes. And on about my question of resizing the EBS AMI, I found Eric Hammond’s post which is very [...]