[TriLUG] Increasing storage for an AWS EC2 instance

[Marc Wiatrowski via TriLUG]

Grow the filesystem?  resize2fs?

On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 11:32 AM Jojo Almario via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Hi guys!
>
> New to the list, haven't touched Linux in 20 years (RedHat 7 or 8) and kind
> of inexperienced in AWS.  Everything I have done so far has been through
> Googling or asking people near me, so I have no idea if the following is
> the correct way to do it.
>
> To start, here is my set up:
> EC2 instance = t3.medium
> OS = Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
> Running: Apache2
>
> User says storage is full so I go to the Instance -> EBS Volumes, find the
> specific volume and then choose "Modify".  I increased it from 70 GB to 200
> GB.  I ssh onto the console of the server and do 'sudo lsblk' .  It shows
> that Name = nvme0n1 (with part nvme0n1p1) is now at 200GB, so then I do the
> command 'growpart /dev/nvme0n1 1 .  This also seems to work.  After a day
> or 2 get notification that it is still filling up and can't start apache.
> More googling, delete some garbage enough to start apache2.  Learn how to
> use df -h and see that /dev/nvme01n is still at it's original size.
>
> So somewhere I missed a step after increasing the volume.  I assume that
> 'lsblk' does not show the same info as 'df -hm'.  Can someone gently tell
> me what step(s)  I missed in order to expand the storage space?
>
> Thanks for any info.
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