Attaching Volume to EC2 Instance
To list the partitions
$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
202 1 52428800 xvda1
Create a Volume in EC2 Instance and attach it to the instance.
$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
202 1 52428800 xvda1
202 80 52428800 xvdf
Format the partition
$sudo mke2fs -F -t ext4 /dev/xvdf
Create a directory for the and mount the volume
$sudo mkdir /data $sudo mount /dev/xvdf /data
Command to display disk usage
$df -h
If we restart, this change would disappear. To make this change permanent , we need to edit this file and add the configs.
$sudo vi /etc/fstab
#
LABEL=/ / ext4 defaults,noatime 1 1
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/xvdf /data ext4 defaults 0 0
Good you tube video on attaching the volume