how to reduce AWS EC2 AMI volume size for Debian Wheezy

ec2_debian7_small.sh

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# set of commands to reduce AWS EC2 AMI volume size for Debian Wheezy
# tested on debian-wheezy-amd64-hvm-2015-01-28-ebs (ami-61e56916) 
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# first get system up to date
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get clean

# Stop the Instance
# Create a snapshot of the root volume
# Create volume from snapshot
# Create empty volume in the same availability zone - size 1GB for example
# Attach both volumes to the instance

# create GPT partition
apt-get install parted
fdisk -l
parted /dev/xvdf print
parted /dev/xvdf mklabel gpt
parted -a optimal /dev/xvdf mkpart primary 0% 100%
parted /dev/xvdf print

# make file system
mkfs -t ext4 /dev/xvdf

# mount old and new
mkdir /mnt/small
mount /dev/xvdf /mnt/small
mkdir /mnt/snap
mount /dev/xvdg /mnt/snap

# copy filesystem contents from snapshot copy volume
cd /mnt/snap; tar cfp - ./* |(cd /mnt/small; tar xvfp -)

# change UUID
blkid /dev/xvda
tune2fs -U 6f816946-42f1-4dcb-90f9-1c8b9daeafe2 /dev/xvdf

# reinstall extlinux
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/small/dev
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/small/sys
mount -t proc /proc /mnt/small/proc
mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/small/dev/pts
chroot /mnt/small /bin/bash
extlinux-update
extlinux --install /boot/extlinux

# stop instance
# detach all volumes
# attach small volume to mount point /dev/xvda

# start

# remove unused volumes + snapshots