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copied!<p>Here's an even easier method. (My m2.2xlarge instance was created with RedHat Linux 6.2, I discovered it had a paltry 6gb of it's 850gb available):</p> <ol> <li><p>Via ssh, check space under root: <code>$df -h</code></p> <blockquote> <pre><code>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvde1 6G 6G 0G 100% / none 17G 0 17G 0% /dev/shm </code></pre> </blockquote></li> <li><p>From aws console, stop the instance</p></li> <li>From aws console, detach the volume (though note the mount point under attachment info, eg <code>/dev/sda1</code>)</li> <li>From aws console, take a snapshot of the volume</li> <li>From aws console, create a new volume using the snapshot (using all the remaining space for the instance type, eg 825gb in my m2.2xlarge case)</li> <li>From aws console, attach the new volume to original mount point /dev/sda1</li> <li>From aws console, restart the instance and ssh back in to the instance</li> <li><p>From ssh, run resize2fs on the root Filesystem (see <code>df -h</code> output in step 1)</p> <blockquote> <p>$resize2fs /dev/xvde1</p> </blockquote></li> <li><p>wait for a few minutes, possibly go and watch your buddy who is stopping <a href="http://www.ivarch.com/blogs/oss/2007/01/resize-a-live-root-fs-a-howto.shtml">all the root services etc</a> like a boss : )</p></li> <li>observe the new cavernous mount: $df -h <blockquote> <pre><code>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvde1 813G 3.7G 801G 1% / none 17G 0 17G 0% /dev/shm </code></pre> </blockquote></li> </ol>

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