AWS ec2 root volume increase: Expanding elastic root volume on aws ubuntu instance not working

Question

I\'ve followed aws doc for expanding elastic root volume and got my root volume size increased from 8 GB to 20 GB, which i confirmed using lsblk.

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Answer 1

My solution:

I don't know about you guys but I was able to add 30GB to my original 8GB Ubuntu EC2 instance and then I went to EC2 Console Manager and right clicked on my Instance, then pressed Reboot.

Once I rebooted and SSH'ed back into the server I typed df -h and saw that my root partition (/dev/xvda1) was of size 38GB.