title: Increasing AWS EC2 ubuntu instance disk space
body: <p>i have a ubuntu instance(CRON server) of volume size 50gb. I want to increase its size to 100gb+</p>
  
  <p>Here are the steps i want to follow, </p>
  
  <p>1) create a snapshot of the volume attached to CRON server.</p>
  
  <p>2) create a volume with the newly created snapshot, by specifying the size you need. In my case 100gb.</p>
  
  <p>3) detach the existing volume for cron server by running the command</p>
  
  <pre><code>ec2-detach-volume old_volume_id cron_instance_id sda1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>4) attach the new volume (i.e. 100gb ones) to cronserver</p>
  
  <pre><code>ec2-attach-volume new_volume_id cron_instance_id sda1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>please correct if am missing or not using a correct step.</p>