Enlarge an ext3 Amazon EBS volume

Have an EBS volume that’s filling up? Follow these steps to enlarge it:

At the EC2 Web Console

1. Unmount the volume.
2. Take a snapshot of the volume.
3. Create a new volume from the snapshot (at the new, bigger size)
4. Detach the old volume
5. Attach the new, bigger volume.

In a shell of the instance

1. fdisk /dev/sdx  (then type: d, n, p, 1, <enter>, <enter>, w)
2. ec2fsck -f /dev/sdx
3. resize2fs -p /dev/sdx
4. fsck -f -y dev/sdx
5. mount /vol

That’s all! Original source and details at:

http://www.capsunlock.net/2009/06/enlarge-amazon-ebs-volume.html

and 

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=112259

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