You can easily resize ext2/ext3 filesystem using 'resize2fs' utility.
Regarding XFS, it is not possible to choose filesystem created on the
EBS volume by Scalr. But after it was attached and mounted, you can
unmount it and create whatever filesystem you wish.

2009/7/9 rhythmandcode <[email protected]>:
>
> Does anyone have any experience using XFS on and EBS volume with
> Scalr?  It looks like the only option for EBS in the admin interface
> is ext3.
>
> If I create a XFS EBS volume on my own, can I somehow arrange for that
> volume to be automatically mounted on a given instance at boot time?
>
> The main reason I want to use XFS is that it's super easy to grow your
> storage volume by taking a snapshot, starting a new volume at a larger
> size based off the snapshot, mount the new volume and execute
> 'xfs_growfs -D XXX /mnt/ebs'.  Is there an easy way to grow an ext3
> volume that I don't know about?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
>
> >
>

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