Unable to growpart because no space left

Question

I'm running an AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance with EBS storage initially of 8GB.

This is now 99.8% full, so I've followed AWS documentation instructions to increase the EBS volume to 16GB. I now need to extend my partition /dev/xvda1 to 16GB, but when I run the command

$ growpart /dev/xvda 1

I get the error

mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/tmp/growpart.2626’: No space left on device

I have tried

1. rebooting the instance
2. stopping the instance, and mounting a newly created EBS volume of size 16GB based on a snapshot of the old 8GB volume
3. running docker system prune -a (resulting in a "Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:/var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?" error. When I try to start the daemon using sudo dockerd, I get a "no space left on device" error as well)
4. running resize2fs /dev/xvda1

all to no avail.

Running lsblk returns

NAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0     7:0    0   89M  1 loop /snap/core/7713
loop1     7:1    0   18M  1 loop /snap/amazon-ssm-agent/1480
loop2     7:2    0 89.1M  1 loop /snap/core/7917
loop3     7:3    0   18M  1 loop /snap/amazon-ssm-agent/1455
xvda    202:0    0   16G  0 disk
└─xvda1 202:1    0    8G  0 part /

df -h returns

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev
tmpfs           395M   16M  379M   4% /run
/dev/xvda1      7.7G  7.7G     0 100% /
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0       90M   90M     0 100% /snap/core/7713
/dev/loop1       18M   18M     0 100% /snap/amazon-ssm-agent/1480
/dev/loop2       90M   90M     0 100% /snap/core/7917
/dev/loop3       18M   18M     0 100% /snap/amazon-ssm-agent/1455
tmpfs           395M     0  395M   0% /run/user/1000

and df -i returns

Filesystem      Inodes  IUsed  IFree IUse% Mounted on
udev            501743    296 501447    1% /dev
tmpfs           504775    457 504318    1% /run
/dev/xvda1     1024000 421259 602741   42% /
tmpfs           504775      1 504774    1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           504775      3 504772    1% /run/lock
tmpfs           504775     18 504757    1% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0       12827  12827      0  100% /snap/core/7713
/dev/loop1          15     15      0  100% /snap/amazon-ssm-agent/1480
/dev/loop2       12829  12829      0  100% /snap/core/7917
/dev/loop3          15     15      0  100% /snap/amazon-ssm-agent/1455
tmpfs           504775     10 504765    1% /run/user/1000

Answer 1

For anyone that has this problem, here's a link to the answer: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ebs-volume-size-increase/

Summary

1. Run df -h to verify your root partition is full (100%)
2. Run lsblk and then lsblk -f to get block device details
3. sudo mount -o size=10M,rw,nodev,nosuid -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp
4. sudo growpart /dev/DEVICE_ID PARTITION_NUMBER
5. lsblk to verify partition has expanded
6. sudo resize2fs /dev/DEVICE_IDPARTITION_NUMBER
7. Run df -h to verify your resized disk
8. sudo umount /tmp