Amazon AWS resize the Volume for a Linux instance

Follow these steps:Stop the instance

• Make a snapshot (MySnap) from volume.
• Create new volume with new size from your snapshot (MySnap).
• Detach the old volume
• Attach the new volume as /dev/sda1
• Start the instance
• in terminal resize the partition:

resize2fs -p /dev/xvda1 (see fdisk -l for your partition name)