New Volume in EC2 Instance Not Reflecting
When we have increased the size of the volume attached a running EC2 instance. We are able to see the new volume using
lsblk:
But when df -h command still displays the old volume size:
This is because new volumes should be formatted to be accessible. Resized existing volumes should also be modified (resized) from the inside of the operating system. The general information on how to do this safely (e.g. with snapshots) is given in the following AWS documentation:
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Based on the discussion in comments, two commands were used to successfully solve the problem:
sudo growpart /dev/xvda 1
sudo resize2fs /dev/xvda1