Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@kakoma

kakoma/mount_ebs.sh

Forked from stingh711/mount_ebs.sh
Created December 1, 2017 01:53
Show Gist options
  • Star 0 You must be signed in to star a gist
  • Fork 0 You must be signed in to fork a gist
  • Save kakoma/9a152a064e7186a7bc591c680bfb88bf to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Save kakoma/9a152a064e7186a7bc591c680bfb88bf to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Download ZIP
How to mount another EBS as /var on EC2 (ubuntu)
Raw
mount_ebs.sh
#!/bin/bash
#attach the EBS to /dev/sdf before running it
#format EBS
mkfs -t ext4 /dev/xvdf
#copy original /var to /dev/xvdf
mkdir /mnt/new
mount /dev/xvdf /mnt/new
cd /var
cp -ax * /mnt/new
cd /
mv var var.old
#mount EBS as new /var
umount /dev/xvdf
mkdir /var
mount /dev/xvdf /var
#update fstab file to mount EBS on system startup
echo "/dev/xvdf /var ext4 noatime 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment