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Cant Modify or Resize Amazon EBS Volume

Cant Modify or Resize Amazon EBS Volume. In us-east-1d N. Virginia. The instance it's connected to is t2.medium CentOS 7.

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Any help would be appreciated.

Solution

  • Update: the answer below was correct when written, but was subsequently superceded by this announcement on June 28, 2018:

    Starting today, Elastic Volumes extends support to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) magnetic (standard) volume type. You can now dynamically increase capacity or change the type of magnetic (standard) volumes with no downtime or performance impact using a simple API call or a few console clicks.

    https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/amazon-ebs-extends-elastic-volumes-to-support-ebs-magnetic--standard--volume-type/

    The issue that originally triggered this question should no longer occur.

    In the screen shot, the volume type shows standard.

    That's a previous generation magnetic volume.

    The previous generation Magnetic volume type is not supported by the volume modification methods [...]

    http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/limitations.html

    Those can't be resized, so the option is grayed out. Your new instance from the AMI probably has a gp2 SSD volume, which does support resize.