mount volume to ec2

Prepare mount volume

First you need to create a volume and attach it to an existing ec2 instance on AWS console.

ssh to ec2, check volume with command sudo fdisk -l

This is the 100GB volume you just attached.

format it with command sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme1n1

Then mount it to your expected path

sudo mount /dev/nvme1n1 /var/lib/docker

(e.g. /var/lib/docker)

Above way of mount point will lost after reboot. You might need a solution to mount volume automaticly after every reboot.

You need to change /etc/fstab, so you should keep a backup sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.orig

Then check volume UUID with command sudo blkid

Edit fstab sudo vim /etc/fstab

Append UUID=f74db2e5-575d-427c-a907-d3167a273b52 /var/lib/docker ext4 defaults,nofail 0 2

sudo umount /var/lib/docker
sudo mount -a
df -h

If you can see 100GB mount point as following figure, then it’ll works on every reboot.