Acessing an attached EBS volume from inside a VM

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Tue, 03/09/2010 - 21:12

surabhi

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I am not mentioning the details of the install as everything is working fine :) Just curious ...I have attached an EBS volume as /dev/sda5 inside a running VM. When I ssh into the VM I can see this volume too. When I try using mount to use this volume as a file system directory it suggests I use a file system type while mounting...I tried ext2/ext3 but both these failed.

Is there a need to format the volumes to a certain type? Or better still how to make use of these attached blocks from inside the running VM?

thanks a lot!
Regards,
Surabhi

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 10:40

graziano

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Hello, yes you do need to

Hello,

yes you do need to format it. Creating the volume is the equivalent of buying a hard drive, and attaching it is the equivalent of plugging it into the machine. Now it's up to you to make it usable (you can partition it or format it as a whole or whatever you want to do with the disk :)).

cheers
graziano

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 11:07

surabhi

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Thanks!

Thanks a lot Graziano for the prompt reply. Really appreciate the help :)

Regards,
Surabhi