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Creating Elastic Block Storage | Mount EBS in linux

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In this blog you will Learn how to attach EBS vloume to EC2 instance

  • Go to EC2 dashboard > volumes

  • Here you can see I have two volumes already created to create another new volume click create volume.

  • Select your volume type. what space you require for your storage in GiB.

  • Availability zone - Check your instance from which Availability zone and then create for example if your instance belongs from us-east-1e but you are creating volume in us-east-1a you can not connect your instance to this volume.

  • Snapshot ID - If you already created snapshot create with it.

  • tags - Labels

  • Click on create Volume

  • Volume is created now it's time to connect with your instance.

  • volume is created in this region us-east-1e.

  • before attaching new volume I will show how many storage volumes connected with instance.

  • Here xvda and xvdb is connected to instance. lsblk is command to check how many volumes is connected with instance.

  • Lets connect another volume to the instance.

  • After connecting successfully you can see extra volume is name with xvdf is connected.

  • Before using volume to create partition format it must.

  • sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/xvdf

  • Give file allocation so we can move or copy data from the volume.

  • volume is mounted.

  • To unmount volume from the instance.

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