Amazon EC2 and EBS disk space problem

Question

I am having a problem reconciling the space available on my EBS volume. According to the AWS console the volume is 50GB and is attached to an instance.

If I ssh to this

Answer 1

Only Rebooting the instance solved my problem

Earlier:

/dev/xvda1       8256952 7837552         0 100% /
udev              299044       8    299036   1% /dev
tmpfs             121892     164    121728   1% /run
none                5120       0      5120   0% /run/lock
none              304724       0    304724   0% /run/shm

Now

/dev/xvda18256952 1062780   6774744  14% /
udev              299044       8    299036   1% /dev
tmpfs             121892     160    121732   1% /run
none                5120       0      5120   0% /run/lock
none              304724       0    304724   0% /run/shm