Create Volume from console

• Login to AWS console
• Goto menu Services -> Compute -> EC2 -> In Left Sidebar under Elastic Block Store -> click on Volume -> Create Volume
• Fill the following parameter

Attach a volume

• Select the created volume, right click and select the “attach volume” option.

Note: Volume and EC2 instance need to be in the same availability zone.

Mount to the folder

• Now, login to your ec2 instance and list the available disks

  `lsblk’

  The above command will list the disk you attached to your instance

• Check if the volume has any data

  sudo file -s /dev/xvdf or `sudo file -s /dev/nvme1n1’

  If the above command output shows “/dev/xvdf: data”, it means your volume is empty.

• Format the volume to ext4 filesystem

  sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/xvdf or sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/nvme1n1

• Create a directory of your choice to mount our new ext4 volume. I am using the name “/var/avolume”

  mkdir -p /var/avolume

• Mount the volume to “/var/avolume” directory

  mount /dev/nvme1n1 /var/avolume

  cd into newvolume directory and check the disk space for confirming the volume mount.

   cd /var/avolume
   df -h .
  

  The above command would show the free space in the newvolume directory

• To unmount the volume

  unmount /dev/nvme1n1