title: EC2 Can't resize volume after increasing size
body: <p>I have followed the steps for resizing an EC2 volume</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Stopped the instance</li>
  <li>Took a snapshot of the current volume</li>
  <li>Created a new volume out of the previous snapshot with a bigger size in the same region</li>
  <li>Deattached the old volume from the instance</li>
  <li>Attached the new volume to the instance at the same mount point</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Old volume was 5GB and the one I created is 100GB
  Now, when i restart the instance and run <code>df -h I</code> still see this</p>
  
  <pre><code>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  /dev/xvde1            4.7G  3.5G 1021M  78% /
  tmpfs                 296M     0  296M   0% /dev/shm
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is what I get when running</p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo resize2fs /dev/xvde1
  
  The filesystem is already 1247037 blocks long.  Nothing to do!
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I run <code>cat /proc/partitions</code> I see</p>
  
  <pre><code> 202       64  104857600 xvde
   202       65    4988151 xvde1
   202       66     249007 xvde2
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>From what I understand if I have followed the right steps xvde should have the same data as xvde1 but I don't know how to use it</p>
  
  <p>How can I use the new volume or umount xvde1 and mount xvde instead?</p>
  
  <p>I cannot understand what I am doing wrong</p>
  
  <p>I also tried <code>sudo ifs_growfs /dev/xvde1</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>xfs_growfs: /dev/xvde1 is not a mounted XFS filesystem
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Btw, this a linux box with centos 6.2 x86_64</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance for your help </p>