{"id":3370,"date":"2014-12-20T17:18:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T17:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2016-01-02T21:43:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T21:43:14","slug":"how-to-resize-an-ebs-xfs-formatted-partition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/how-to-resize-an-ebs-xfs-formatted-partition\/","title":{"rendered":"How to resize an EBS (xfs formatted) partition"},"content":{"rendered":"

First of all, create a snapshot of your EBS volume. Then out of that snapshot you will be able to create your new volume.<\/p>\n

However, when you detach the old one from your instance and attach the new one, you will still see the old available space with df<\/code><\/p>\n

look at my \/dev\/xvdf\/<\/code> available space (after mounting the new EBS volume)<\/p>\n

ubuntu@ip-10-47-167-74:~$ df -h\nFilesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on\n\/dev\/xvda1       16G  5.9G  9.1G  40% \/\nudev            7.4G   12K  7.4G   1% \/dev\ntmpfs           1.5G  176K  1.5G   1% \/run\nnone            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% \/run\/lock\nnone            7.4G     0  7.4G   0% \/run\/shm\n\/dev\/xvdf        20G   19G  1.7G  92% \/media\/ebs\/data  <<< this one\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
still 20G, I mounted a 80G one!<\/p>\n
This drive has been formatted to use an xfs<\/code> file system. In order to resize it, this is the command I used:<\/p>\n
sudo xfs_growfs -d \/media\/ebs\/data\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
output should be something like this<\/p>\n
ubuntu@ip-10-47-167-74:~$ sudo xfs_growfs -d \/media\/ebs\/data\nmeta-data=\/dev\/xvdf              isize=256    agcount=4, agsize=1310720 blks\n         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2\ndata     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=5242880, imaxpct=25\n         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks\nnaming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0\nlog      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=2560, version=2\n         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1\nrealtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0\ndata blocks changed from 5242880 to 20971520\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
now let’s see the df -h<\/code> output<\/p>\n
ubuntu@ip-10-47-167-74:~$ df -h\nFilesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on\n\/dev\/xvda1       16G  5.9G  9.1G  40% \/\nudev            7.4G   12K  7.4G   1% \/dev\ntmpfs           1.5G  176K  1.5G   1% \/run\nnone            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% \/run\/lock\nnone            7.4G     0  7.4G   0% \/run\/shm\n\/dev\/xvdf        80G   19G   62G  23% \/media\/ebs\/data\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First of all, create a snapshot of your EBS volume. Then out of that snapshot you will be able to create your new volume. However, when you detach the old one from your instance and attach the new one, you will still see the old available space with df look at my \/dev\/xvdf\/ available space […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,30],"tags":[1156,276,1158,1449,959,1027],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-code","category-geeklife","tag-aws","tag-cloud","tag-ebs","tag-linux","tag-sysadmin","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-02-at-4.42.45-PM.png?fit=1976%2C692&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-Sm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3977,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/how-to-resize-aws-ec2-ebs-root-partition-without-rebooting-in-3-steps\/","url_meta":{"origin":3370,"position":0},"title":"How to resize AWS ec2 ebs root partition without rebooting in 3 steps","author":"gubatron","date":"September 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Go to the AWS EBS dashboard and modify the volume size. 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