Create a EC2 Volume for existing EC2 Machine

                                      Create a EC2 Volume for existing EC2 Machine

Open your Existing  EC2 Machine Instance 

Step 1: In Categories click volume and create a new volume of your preferred size and

type.

Successfully created volume name as  "sneka"

NOTE: Make sure EBS Volume and Instance are in the same zone.

Step 2: Select the created volume , right click and select "attach volume" option.

   Successfully attached volume to instance 

Step 3:Now login to EC2 instance and list the commands in terminal.

This command will list the disk attached to  your instance.

Step 4:Check if the volume has any data using the following command

The above command output shows "/dev/xvdf : data", it means your volume is empty.

Step 5:Format the volume to "ext4" filesystem using the command.

Step 6: Create a directory of your choice to mount our new ext4 volume .  I am using a name "newvolume".

Step 7: Mount the volume to "newvolume" directory  using the following command.

Step 8: cd into newvolume   directory and check the disk space to validate the volume mount.

The above command should show the free space in the newvolume directory.