{"id":8148,"date":"2020-01-01T15:08:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=8148"},"modified":"2025-02-01T22:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:48:55","slug":"ec2-ebs-volume-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/ec2-ebs-volume-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"EC2 – EBS Volume Demo:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this tutorial we are going to Explore and setup extra volume to EC2 instance<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Step 1 – Login to AWS console, launch EC2 launch wizard page.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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New EC2 console <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Step 2 – Launch and Ec2 instance – traverse to Storage selection block.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It will look something like this, and default view where an EC2 is having root volume only<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now we will add another volume – click on add new volume<\/em> button<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have added another EBS volume, of size 2gb and of type GP2. Termination protection is on – means it will be terminated if and when EC2 instance gets terminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Device column<\/strong><\/em> stores information about the path where we would be mounting the addition volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snapshot column<\/strong><\/em> gives us option about taking base backup snapshot – new volume would be created from that . More on this in the upcoming EBS tutorials Stay Tuned \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Launch the EC2 instance now, keep the key pair handy. SSH into the EC2 once its initialised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 3 – Setting up the new addition volume in the EC2.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

After SSH, you will have window like below, I’m using Mac Terminal for SSH. Windows we can use putty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lets list all the volumes attached to the EC2 instance<\/p>\n\n\n

\/\/ this will return all the volumes attached<\/span>\n$ lsblk <\/code><\/span>Code language:<\/span> JavaScript<\/span> (<\/span>javascript<\/span>)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n
We should get something like this, if not trying going back to EC2 details and see if you have missed anything in Step 2 above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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So it’s showing we have two volumes xvda<\/em><\/strong> and xvdb<\/strong><\/em>. Out of which xvda is mounted as root volume ‘\/’ and the other one is not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
xvdb is the volume which we have selected additional volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now we fill format the new volume with file system type and post the we would mount it. After which can be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Follow along with me.<\/p>\n\n\n
\/\/ if this returns data means new added volume is not having file system<\/span>\n$ sudo file -f \/dev\/xvdb<\/code><\/span>Code language:<\/span> JavaScript<\/span> (<\/span>javascript<\/span>)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n
For me it came data after executing above command, as we choose blank in snapshot column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s create a file system in the volume.<\/p>\n\n\n
\/\/ this will create file system<\/span>\n$ sudo mkfs -t xfs \/dev\/xvdb<\/code><\/span>Code language:<\/span> JavaScript<\/span> (<\/span>javascript<\/span>)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n
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We will create mount point, to mount this volume.<\/p>\n\n\n
$ sudo mkdir \/newvolume<\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n\n\n
Mount the volume to this mount point<\/p>\n\n\n
$ sudo mount \/dev\/xvdb \/newvolume<\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n\n\n
Let’s try to list attached volumes now – try lsblk<\/em><\/strong> command again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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If you see something like this – you are good to go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you for reading, Have a great day and and awesome year !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gaurav Bajpai<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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