increasing amazon root volume size
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I have a default amazon ec2 instance with 8GB root volume size. I am running out of space. I have:
- Detach the current EBS volume in AWS Management Console (Web).
- Create snapshot of this volume.
- Created a new Volume with 50G space with my snapshot.
- 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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