Brief note to create an EBS volume then mount it while CentOS 6.3 on EC2 at boot.
Show the space available on that filesystem before we mount the volume:
# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvde1 7.9G 4.0G 3.5G 54% / tmpfs 296M 0 296M 0% /dev/shm After we attach the EBS volume to an EC2 instance:
# fdisk -l Disk /dev/xvde: 9663 MB, 9663676416 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1174 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00076be1 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/xvde1 * 1 1045 8387584 83 Linux /dev/xvde2 1045 1175 1048576 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/xvdt: 107. ...