Eventhough\u00a0 AWS is a great cloud computing service , it does have it’s own disadvantages . We are not going to discuss all of\u00a0 them here but we will look into\u00a0 one of them\u00a0 .\u00a0 If you have launched \u00a0 EC2 instances\u00a0 from Amazon Machine Images\u00a0 ( AMI ) , you might have\u00a0 seen that the size of the root partition ( \/ ) is only\u00a0 10GB\u00a0 for all\u00a0 the instances . So to test if\u00a0 we can have more than 10GB for\u00a0 root partition ,\u00a0 we tried\u00a0 the following<\/p>\n
1 )<\/strong> We\u00a0 decided to create a\u00a0 Custom AMI of\u00a0 our\u00a0 local system using Loopback file .<\/p>\n 2 )<\/strong> For this , we\u00a0 created a Loopback file\u00a0 of size\u00a0 50GB .<\/p>\n 3 )<\/strong> But when we\u00a0 tried to\u00a0 Bundle\u00a0 the image ,\u00a0 we\u00a0 got the following error<\/p>\n [bash]ERROR : The specified image file\u00a0 LoopBackFileName.img\u00a0 is too large[\/bash]<\/p>\n 4 ) <\/strong>When\u00a0 we tried again with a smaller Loopback image file of size 15Gb , we got the same error .<\/p>\n So currently\u00a0 for EC2 instances , we cant resize the preconfigured 10GB\u00a0 limit\u00a0 for Root Partition ( \/\u00a0 partition )\u00a0 .\u00a0 But there are few workarounds for this limitation .<\/p>\n 1 ) <\/strong>If you want to install anything\u00a0 on Root partition , then you can install it on a directory under \/\u00a0 and move the installation directory to an EBS volume and create a softlink\u00a0 on\u00a0 \/ \u00a0 to the\u00a0 installation directory in EBS .<\/p>\n 2 ) <\/strong>Aws has introduced a new feature called\u00a0 “Boot From EBS<\/strong>”\u00a0 which will allow you to have\u00a0 upto\u00a0 1TB \u00a0 for Root Partition . Please check our\u00a0 blog on\u00a0 BootFromEBS<\/a> to\u00a0 find out how to resize\u00a0 the root partition in an EC2 instance. \u00a0 Basically we can have more than 10GB for the root partition by this method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eventhough\u00a0 AWS is a great cloud computing service , it does have it’s own disadvantages . We are not going to discuss all of\u00a0 them here but we will look into\u00a0 one of them\u00a0 .\u00a0 If you have launched \u00a0 EC2 instances\u00a0 from Amazon Machine Images\u00a0 ( AMI ) , you might have\u00a0 seen that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[571,604,26,617,144,137,575,616],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","tag-amazon-machine-image","tag-amazon-com","tag-aws-ec2-cloud-computing-resizing-root-partition-boot-from-ebs","tag-cloud-computing-service","tag-company-amazon-com","tag-department-stores-nec","tag-disk-partitioning","tag-loopback"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t