Ameya Shenoy
← All writing
notes

Increase Disk Size on AWS

  • Increase disk size from AWS console or via API

  • SSH into the machine and run the commands on the correct disk

Terminal window
# Check current disk usage
df -h
lsblk -f


# Grow the partition (if using GPT/partition table). here 1 is the number of the partition you want to grow
sudo growpart /dev/nvme0n1 1


# Extend the filesystem
# For ext4:
sudo resize2fs /dev/nvme0n1p1