Problem with enlarge a non root filesystem

Question

Hi all, good Sunday everyone, appreciate your help on my issue below  
  
I have an EC2 instance and it has a filesystem which is a volume of 100G mounted on a folder. The filesystem is ext4 and is encrypted if that matters. I am running out of space on that volume. The volume does not appear to have any partition as lsblk does not show any partition.  
  
I followed the information from this link https://www.daniloaz.com/en/how-to-enlarge-the-size-of-an-ebs-volume-in-aws-and-extend-an-ext4-partition/. I basically unmounted it first, took a snapshot of the volume and then made a new volume from the snapshot with the size of 200G (double the original 100). I then mounted the new volume.  
  
Now from lsblk, it shows"xvdf    202:80   0  200G  0 disk /var/www/html", but from df -v it still shows "/dev/xvdf      103081248 58847604  38974380  61% /var/www/html". Still the same 100G and not increased to 200G.  
  
What I missed doing here?   
  
Thanks in advanced  
  
Edited by: ebsllc on Jan 31, 2021 9:39 AM

Peter Cooper Jr · Answer

Have you extended the file system?  
  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/recognize-expanded-volume-linux.html

ebsllc · Answer

I missed performing the resize2fs command in case others find it helpful.  
  
Thanks.

Satyam · Answer

Hi There

After the volume is increased, you would need to resize the filesystem as mentioned earlier.
Once that is done, you will see the changes in ```df``` output.

ebsllc · Answer

Any help or pointer? becoming desperate. I guess I can make a new 200G volume and copy the data from old one to the new one as a workaround...  
  
Thanks.

Problem with enlarge a non root filesystem

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