Suppose you newly spin an EC2 instance from an AMI image that 8GB ESB volume and you set up new EC2 instance to have larger volume as 100GB. However, you will see only 8GB size when you use command like df or parted. Below are example commands to determine.
[root@ ~]# file -s /dev/xvde
/dev/xvde: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data (needs journal recovery) (extents) (large files) (huge files)
[root@0 ~]# file -s /dev/sda
/dev/sda: symbolic link to `xvde'
[root@ ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvde 8256952 1749732 6087792 23% /
tmpfs 7619396 0 7619396 0% /dev/shm
[root@ip-10-75-130-120 ~]# df -BG
Filesystem 1G-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvde 8G 2G 6G 23% /
tmpfs 8G 0G 8G 0% /dev/shm
(parted) unit kb
(parted) print free
Model: Xen Virtual Block Device (xvd)
Disk /dev/xvde: 107374182kB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00kB 107374182kB 107374182kB ext4
(parted) unit gb
(parted) print free
Model: Xen Virtual Block Device (xvd)
Disk /dev/xvde: 107GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00GB 107GB 107GB ext4
[root@ip-10-75-130-120 ~]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/xvde / ext4 defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
Solution is very simple: run command resize2fs!
[root@ip-10-33-53-115 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvde 7.9G 1.7G 5.9G 23% /
tmpfs 7.3G 0 7.3G 0% /dev/shm
[root@ip-10-33-53-115 ~]# resize2fs /dev/xvde
resize2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem at /dev/xvde is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 7
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/xvde to 26214400 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/xvde is now 26214400 blocks long.
[root@ip-10-33-53-115 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvde 99G 1.7G 92G 2% /
tmpfs 7.3G 0 7.3G 0% /dev/shm
[root@ip-10-33-53-115 ~]#