Assuming that you are familiar with LVM technology. Let's see how to attach a disk (EBS) to an already running instance with LVM enabled. If it’s LVM based, we can simply increase the disk without shutting down the machine, which means with zero downtime.
How to check the storage device management technology is LVM?
Let's first check, current disk running as a "logical volume", so that we can add more disk to that volume group. We can find out that from the server CLI by using the "df" command:
df -h
For example:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1 7.8G 6.3G 1.5G 82% /
devtmpfs 3.9G 68K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vg1-lv1 79G 44G 32G 59% /mnt/data
Consider the case your disk is running out of space. Please follow the steps to create and attach a new disk to this volume group.
Step 1. Log into AWS console.
Step 2. Create a new volume and attach that volume to your running EC2 instance.
Step 3. Now you can list the new disk from the server using fdisk -l command.
Step 4. To check the current volume group details you can use the command vgdisplay.
Step 5. Format the newly added disk.
mkfs.ext4 /dev/xvdg
Step 6. Create physical volume on newly added disk.
Next we will use the pvcreate command to create a physical volume for later use by the LVM.
pvcreate /dev/xvdg
Step 7. Extend the current volume group with new disk.
To extent the current volume group you can use the following command:
vgextend vg-name /dev/xvdg
Step 8. Now execute the vgdisplay again to change the disk change.
Step 9. Confirm the physical volumes status using pvscan.
Step 10. Increase logical volume size.
Yeah, now your volume group has enough size, so we can increase the size of logical volume. Use the following command to list logical volume name and details:
lvdisplay
Then we need to increase the logical volume size.
lvextend /dev/vg1/lg1 /dev/sdg
Step 11. Resize logical volume using resize2fs.
resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg1-lv1
Now check the df -h command, you can see the difference now.
For example:
# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 7.8G 6.3G 1.5G 82% / devtmpfs 991M 68K 991M 1% /dev tmpfs 1002M 0 1002M 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/vg1-lv1 68M 44G 21G 68% /mnt/data
That's it !!!
