EC2 Can t resize volume after increasing size

Question

I have followed the steps for resizing an EC2 volume

1. Stopped the instance

2. Took a snapshot of the current volume

3. Created a new volume out of the previous snapshot with a bigger size in the same region

4. Deattached the old volume from the instance

5. Attached the new volume to the instance at the same mount point

This didn't work. Can someone help me with this?

Answer 1

small improvement need to be considered if we are increasing EBSs into larger sizes

1. Stop the instance
2. Create a snapshot from the volume
3. Create a new volume based on the snapshot increasing the size
4. Check and remember the current's volume mount point (i.e. /dev/sda1)
5. Detach current volume
6. Attach the recently created volume to the instance, setting the exact mount point
7. Restart the instance
8. Access via SSH to the instance and run fdisk /dev/xvde

This will work properly.