ec2-attach-volume

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-05-05

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ec2-attach-volume

Syntax

ec2-attach-volume volume_id --instance instance_id --device device

Description

Attaches an Amazon EBS volume to an instance and exposes it as the specified device.

Options

OptionDescriptionRequired

volume_id

The ID of the Amazon EBS volume

Example: vol-4d826724

Yes

--instance instance_id

The ID of the instance to which the volume will attach Volumes can only attach to instances in the same availability zone.

Example: i-6058a509

Yes

--device device

Specifies how the device is exposed to the instance. This value is operating system dependent.

Example: /dev/sdh (Linux)

Yes

Output

Amazon EBS returns a table that contains the following information:

  • ATTACHMENT identifier

  • ID of the volume

  • ID of the instance

  • The device as it is exposed to the instance

  • Volume state (e.g., attaching, attached)

  • Time stamp when attachment initiated

Amazon EBS displays errors on stderr.

Example

This example attaches volume vol-4d826724 to instance i-6058a509 and exposes it as /dev/sdh. For information on standard storage locations, see

Storage Locations.
$ ec2-attach-volume vol-4d826724 --instance i-6058a509 --device /dev/sdh
ATTACHMENT vol-4d826724 i-6058a509 /dev/sdh attaching 2008-02-14T00:15:00+0000

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