### On AWS

To resize the root volume of an EC2 instance, you can do the following steps:

1. Login to AWS console, navigate to "EC2" .

2. Select an instance.

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3. Click the "Storage" tab.

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4. Click on the volume that you want to resize.

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5. Then you may redirected to volumes listing page, select the target volume and click "Action > Modify Volume".

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6. Now you may resize the volume.

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### On your EC2 instance

To take effect on your EC2 instance, you may do some action on you instance:

> Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/recognize-expanded-volume-linux.html#extend-file-system

1. Use `df -h` check the current disk mount points and partition.

2. Use `lsblk` to check disk and partitioning.

3. Use `sudo growpart /dev/xvda 1` to grow the partition to use entire disk spaces.

4. Use `lsblk` to check the result.

5. Use `sudo resize2fs /dev/xvda1` to extend the volume of partition.

Enjoy : )