EBS Contd

Tasks

• Create an ec2 instance
  
• Create a new empty volume (Size 1 GB)
  
• Attach the volume to ec2
  
  
• Mount this to ec2 instance
  
• Create a xfs based file system
  
• Lets mount this to a folder /tools
  
  
• Restart the machine
• See what are mounts attached.
  
  
• If we need to preserve the mounts we need to deal with fstab
• Execute sudo blkid and make a note of block id info

/dev/xvdf: UUID="1b12551c-f61d-4847-bd9d-30fbff96668a" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="xfs"

• Add the following info to /etc/fstab UUID=ed4b67f9-3002-461b-ac30-0bb71e4c3f4c /tools xfs defaults,nofail 1 2
• Lets restart the machine and check mounts
• Refer Here for the instructions
  
• Lab Setup
  • Ensure you have two linux instances up and running in the same region
  • Try doing the single machine and attaching disks in windows

Overview of Disks on Windows and linux