Amazon EBS: Increasing Disk size

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

Disk Management

  • 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 :-)

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