Automatically mount an EBS volume upon starting an Amazon EC2 Linux instance

Question

I have an EBS volume (e.g. /dev/sdf) that has been attached to an EC2 instance (which boots from a different EBS volume), and I have mounted the volume (through

Answer 1

I recommend using an /etc/init conf file that do that:

• login with root
• create a new file (not executable) name it like this : mountec2vol.conf
• paste into it this code :

# /etc/init/mountec2vol.conf
#
# description: Mounts the EBS Volume
#
start on net-device-up
exec mount /dev/xvdf1 /myVolume`

• Reboot if you want to test

that's all what you have to do!