On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Kelly Prescott kprescott@coolip.net wrote:
to follow-up, I will give an example. Here is the listing for the official centos AMI:
IMAGE ami-96a818fe aws-marketplace/CentOS 7 x86_64 (2014_09_29) EBS HVM-b7ee8a69-ee97-4a49-9e68-afaee216db2e-ami-d2a117ba.2 aws-marketplace available public [marketplace: aw0evgkw8e5c1q413zgy5pjce] x86_64 machineebs hvm xen BLOCKDEVICEMAPPING EBS /dev/sda1 snap-591037fd 8 false standard Not Encrypted as you can see the block device mapping is by default set to BLOCKDEVICEMAPPING EBS /dev/sda1 snap-591037fd 8 false standard Not Encrypted
it is a standard volume, not encrypted, and 8 GB my modification consists in adding this to my run command for my ami launch: -b /dev/sda1=snap-591037fd:20:false:gp2
I set the drive the same, the snapshot the same, and I give it 20GB instead of 8, I also use the gp2 type instead of the standard as well as telling it not to delete the volume when the instance terminates.
Hope this helps. kp
Perhaps so, and I appreciate the pointer. I can try to work with that to integrate command line based deployment and get this option.
So you're working from the command line tools in the EPEL 'cloud-init' package, not the AWS GUI? Because when I tried expanding the size of the base disk image in the GUI, I wound up with an an 8 Gig default /dev/xvda1 on a 20 Gig /dev/xvda. That's why I was looking at "how do I resize this thing safel?"
Unfortunately, it doesn't help a lot with what I already have built, but could be useful going forward.