Hi,

I am following th Amazon documentation to increase a partion. I modified my volume by adding 35GB to it. Then I run "growpart" but it fails as seen below. I cannot find any resolution as all the Google results state that growpart should work. What step am I missing?

[root@aws ~]# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
xvda 202:0 0 195G 0 disk*
* xvda1 202:1 0 15G 0 part /
*xvda2 202:2 0 4G 0 part*
*xvda3 202:3 0 1K 0 part*
*xvda5 202:5 0 2G 0 part /tmp
*xvda6 202:6 0 15G 0 part /var
*xvda7 202:7 0 7G 0 part /var/log
*xvda8 202:8 0 25G 0 part /home
*xvda9 202:9 0 12G 0 part /home/httpd
*xvda10 202:10 0 80G 0 part /work
[root@aws ~]# growpart /dev/xvda 10
FAILED: failed to get start and end for /dev/xvda10 in /dev/xvda

I'd be guessing /dev/xvda3 is an extended partition and that needs to be resized first. Let's see this (as root) - and use [code] tags to retain layout.Not a AWS user, so merely offering possibilities.

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Just in case the following discussion is relevant...
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread...hreadID=287102

Thanks guys. I solved the issue and my partition has been expanded.

For anyone else encountering this, use df -hT to check the filesystem type, if it is XFS then you need to use xfs_growfs -d / ( where / is the mount point as displayed in df -hT ) instead of using growpart ( yum install xfsprogs if you don't have xfs_growfs )