How to extend AWS EBS volumes with no downtime

How to extend AWS EBS volumes with no downtime

If you need to extend your EBS volume With No Downtime, please follow these simple steps:

• Login to your AWS console
• Choose “EC2” from the services list
• Click on “Volumes” under ELASTIC BLOCK STORE menu.
• Choose the volume that you want to resize, right click on it and click “Modify Volume”

Set the new size for your EBS volume (in this case i have extended an 8GB volume to 50GB)

• Click on modify.

Now, we need to extend the partition itself.

• SSH to the EC2 instance where the EBS volume is attached.
• Type the following command to list our block devices:

[root@awsserver ~]# lsblk
NAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
xvda    202:0    0   50G  0 disk
└─xvda1 202:1    0    8G  0 part /

• As you can See root Device is showing 50GB but the partition is showing 8GB. Now Grow the partition.

[root@awsserver ~]#  growpart /dev/xvda 1
CHANGED: partition=1 start=2048 old: size=16775168 end=16777216 new: size=104855519,end=104857567

• We have a XFS filesystem so ran , xfs_growfs

[root@awsserver ~]#  xfs_growfs /
meta-data=/dev/xvda1             isize=512    agcount=4, agsize=524224 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1
         =                       crc=1        finobt=0 spinodes=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=2096896, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=2560, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
data blocks changed from 2096896 to 13106939
[root@awsserver ~]#

• Now Check the File System Size :

[centos@awsserver ~]$ df -h /
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1       50G   12G   39G  23% /
[centos@awsserver ~]$

You have just extended your EBS volume size.