How to extend EC2 ext3 filesystem

How to extend disk on existing EC2 instance

Ivan Borshchov
Ivan Borshchov
CEO
May 25, 2020
How to extend EC2 ext3 filesystem
How to extend EC2 ext3 filesystem

On Amazon console go to Volumes, Right-click on item attached to your EC2 instance, enter new size (In the example I extended up to 32G):

Extend EC2 ext3
Extend EC2 ext3

Login into your EC2 instance and write:

lsblk

It will show partitions:

NAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0     7:0    0 93.8M  1 loop /snap/core/8935
loop1     7:1    0   18M  1 loop /snap/amazon-ssm-agent/1566
loop2     7:2    0 93.9M  1 loop /snap/core/9066
xvda    202:0    0   32G  0 disk
└─xvda1 202:1    0    8G  0 part /

We see xvda with 32Gb and xvda1 with old size 8Gb, lets extend it.

Run:

sudo growpart /dev/xvda 1
sudo resize2fs /dev/xvda1