Need Larger HD, made snapshot, redeployed to new instance Size Drive Size!

I have the same problem on Linux.

For anyone else who stumbles across this post ..

Case:

• You have upgraded you instance in lightsail by using a snapshot of a smaller plan into a larger plan
• You are on a linux based system

Solution

1. log into your instance with SSH, or terminal from dashboard
2. install the required tools (make sure you haven't reached your HDD capacity or else these tools can't be install.. you'll have to delete something else first)

sudo apt-get install -y cloud-utils fdisk

3. get the name of your main partition

df -h

4. the partition name concatenates the partition number after the name, starting with 'p', eg. /dev/acoden1p1. In this case, the partition name is /dev/acoden1, and it is partition 1.
5. resize the drive

sudo resize2fs /dev/acoden1p1

6. expand the partition (name, space, partition number)

sudo growpart /dev/acoden1 1

7. reboot the drive

reboot

Then after reboot, check the partition values

df -h

Your partition should now hopefully be the correct value