Amazon EBS: Increasing Disk size
13
Aug
2009
Whenever you got an EBS Disk which size is not sufficient enough anymore, you can easily make it larger. Here’s how (OS: Windows off course).
- First of all create a snapshot of the volume (the larger the disk, the longer it takes)
- Create a volume from your snapshot and give it a greater size
- Detach your original volume and attach your snapshot volume
If you open your Disk Management in Windows, you can see that you’re disk has “Unallocated” disk space
- Start a command prompt and enter [diskpart]
- In diskpart enter [list volume], this command will list your volumes. Write down the volume senumber of the disk you just attached
- Enter [select volume #], where # represents the number of your disk
- Now enter [Extend]
Now see the magic happen