ec2-describe-volumes

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31

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ec2-describe-volumes

Description

Describes the specified Amazon EBS volumes that you own. If you do not specify one or more volume IDs, Amazon EBS describes all volumes that you own. For more information about Amazon EBS, go to the

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Developer Guide or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Syntax

ec2-describe-volumes [volume_id ...]

Options

Name Description Required

volume_id

The ID of the volume to list.

Type: String

Default: Describes all volumes that you own.

Example: vol-4282672b

No

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

  • VOLUME identifier

  • ID of the volume

  • Size of the volume, in GiBs

  • Snapshot from which the volume was created, if applicable

  • Availability Zone in which the volume launched

  • Volume state (e.g., creating, available, in-use, deleting, error)

  • Time stamp when volume creation initiated

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example describes all volumes associated with your account.

PROMPT> ec2-describe-volumes
VOLUME vol-4d826724 800 us-east-1a in-use 2008-02-14T00:00:00+0000
ATTACHMENT vol-4d826724 i-6058a509 /dev/sdh attached 2008-02-14T00:00:17+0000
VOLUME vol-50957039 13 us-east-1a available 2008-02-091T00:00:00+0000
VOLUME vol-6682670f 1 us-east-1a in-use 2008-02-11T12:00:00+0000
ATTACHMENT vol-6682670f i-69a54000 /dev/sdh attached 2008-02-11T13:56:00+0000
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