Tag Archive for rightscale

Unable to resize ec2 ebs root volume

I have followed many of the tutorials that pretty much all say the same thing which is basically:

1. Stop the instance
2. Detach the volume
3. Create a snapshot of the volume
4. Create a bigger volume from the snapshot
5. Attach the new volume to the instance
6. Start the instance back up
7. Run resize2fs /dev/xxx

However, step 7 is where the problems start happening. Read more

Moving to Cloud

Yesterday i watched Webinar “Upgrading production systems – the Cloud makes it easy!” on Zend.com, actually that was my Firsf Live Webinar, where people from RightScale were talking about “Cloud deployment” and, of course, RightScale app along with Zend Cluster Manager.
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