AWS Elastic Block Storage(EBS)

kannanbaskaran

Kannan

Posted on November 27, 2023

AWS Elastic Block Storage(EBS)

Here We are going to see how to add volumes on the instance using Elastic Block Storage(EBS)

  • Create a EC2 Instance with Ubuntu OS and with instance type as t2.nano and selected the existing key pair and security group to launch the instance.

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  • Go to Elastic Block store select volumes

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  • Create a Volume and set 10 GB as additional storage

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  • Once volume is created attach the volume on the instance which we created

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  • login to the instance via ssh and view the attached volume using list block "lsblk"and formate the file system type to "ext4"
kannan@kannan-PC:~$ ssh -i apache.pem ubuntu@3.110.83.63

ubuntu@ip-172-31-47-222:~$ df -Th
Filesystem     Type   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root      ext4   7.6G  1.6G  6.0G  21% /
tmpfs          tmpfs  224M     0  224M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs   90M  832K   89M   1% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs  5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
/dev/xvda15    vfat   105M  6.1M   99M   6% /boot/efi
tmpfs          tmpfs   45M  4.0K   45M   1% /run/user/1000
ubuntu@ip-172-31-47-222:~$ lsblk
NAME     MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0      7:0    0  24.6M  1 loop /snap/amazon-ssm-agent/7528
loop1      7:1    0  55.7M  1 loop /snap/core18/2790
loop2      7:2    0  63.5M  1 loop /snap/core20/2015
loop3      7:3    0 111.9M  1 loop /snap/lxd/24322
loop4      7:4    0  40.8M  1 loop /snap/snapd/20092
xvda     202:0    0     8G  0 disk 
├─xvda1  202:1    0   7.9G  0 part /
├─xvda14 202:14   0     4M  0 part 
└─xvda15 202:15   0   106M  0 part /boot/efi
xvdf     202:80   0    10G  0 disk 

ubuntu@ip-172-31-47-222:~$ sudo file -s /dev/xvdf
/dev/xvdf: data
ubuntu@ip-172-31-47-222:~$ sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/xvdf
mke2fs 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
Creating filesystem with 2621440 4k blocks and 655360 inodes
Filesystem UUID: adc5036f-9501-4b72-951e-1cf30aa4bf72
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
    32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632

Allocating group tables: done                            
Writing inode tables: done                            
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done 

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  • To mount the formatted volume we need to create a directory we can mount the volume with file name or UUID
ubuntu@ip-172-31-47-222:~$ sudo mkdir /data
ubuntu@ip-172-31-47-222:~$ sudo file -s /dev/xvdf
/dev/xvdf: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=adc5036f-9501-4b72-951e-1cf30aa4bf72 (extents) (64bit) (large files) (huge files)

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ubuntu@ip-172-31-47-222:~$ sudo mount UUID=adc5036f-9501-4b72-951e-1cf30aa4bf72 /data
ubuntu@ip-172-31-47-222:~$ df -Th
Filesystem     Type   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root      ext4   7.6G  1.6G  6.0G  21% /
tmpfs          tmpfs  224M     0  224M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs   90M  844K   89M   1% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs  5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
/dev/xvda15    vfat   105M  6.1M   99M   6% /boot/efi
tmpfs          tmpfs   45M  4.0K   45M   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/xvdf      ext4   9.8G   24K  9.3G   1% /data

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  • If we reboot the instance the attached volume will not detected to keep detect after reboot or restart the instance we need to backup the volume file.
ubuntu@ip-172-31-47-222:~$ sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup
ubuntu@ip-172-31-47-222:~$ sudo vi /etc/fstab

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  • make an volume file entry on the "sudo vim /etc/fstab"

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on the above path we can use either path or UUID of the volume.
Mount the Volume file

ubuntu@ip-172-31-47-222:~$ sudo mount -a
ubuntu@ip-172-31-47-222:~$ df -Th
Filesystem     Type   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root      ext4   7.6G  1.6G  6.0G  21% /
tmpfs          tmpfs  224M     0  224M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs   90M  844K   89M   1% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs  5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
/dev/xvda15    vfat   105M  6.1M   99M   6% /boot/efi
tmpfs          tmpfs   45M  4.0K   45M   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/xvdf      ext4   9.8G   24K  9.3G   1% /data

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Now the Volume file were mounted permanently.

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kannanbaskaran
Kannan

Posted on November 27, 2023

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