Increase disk space of a new AWS instance

The following topic explains how to increase the disk space of a newly deployed AWS instance (running CentOS 7) by extending your out-of-the-box storage device.

The AlgoSec AMI comes with 250 GB in the data partition. After you deploy it in a AWS environment, according to your sizing, you may need to increase the disk space of your newly deployed AWS instance.

In this topic:

Increase disk space (up to 6 TB)

Do the following:

During the Add Storage phase of the setup process, increase disk space on your AWS instance.

1. Set volume to 2000 GiB

   

   

2. Run fdisk -l to check the Physical Volume name:

   

3. Run pvdisplay to verify the physical volume /dev/nvme2n1 already in vg_algosec group:

   

4. Run pvresize /dev/nvme2n1 to resize PV and Run pvdisplay to see the change:

   

5. Run vgdisplay to see the VG size has already changed:

   

6. Run lvextend /dev/vg_algosec/data -l+100%FREE to extend the LV:

   

7. Run lvdisplay:

   

8. Run df -h:

   

9. Run xfs_growfs /dev/vg_algosec/data:

   

10. Run df -h:

    

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