2 min read | by Jordi Prats
If we are using a NVMe EBS volumes, even though on the AWS Console we will see it as something like /dev/xvdait won't be visible on the Linux system using this name: We will have to look for /dev/nvme devices
If we want to resize the filesystem to the size of the volume we can use the following steps:
First, we can use growpart to resize the partition on the disk to fill it:
# growpart /dev/nvme0n1 1 CHANGED: partition=1 start=4096 old: size=104853471 end=104857567 new: size=209711071 end=209715167 Then, depending on the file system we are using we will have to pick the right tool:
For XFS we will have to use xfs_growfs. With the -d option it will resize the file system to fill the partition:
# xfs_growfs -d / meta-data=/dev/nvme0n1p1 isize=512 agcount=26, agsize=524159 blks = sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1 = crc=1 finobt=1 spinodes=0 data = bsize=4096 blocks=13106683, imaxpct=25 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 ftype=1 log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=2560, version=2 = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 data blocks changed from 13106683 to 26213883 Instead, if we are using some ext filesystem (like ext4), we'll have to use resize2fs:
# resize2fs /dev/nvme0n1 resize2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) Resizing the filesystem on /dev/nvme0n1 to 256000 (4k) blocks. The filesystem on /dev/nvme0n1 is now 256000 blocks long. Posted on 07/02/2022