Mounting a NVME disk on AWS EC2

Question

So I created i3.large with NVME disk on each nodes, here was my process :

1. lsblk -> nvme0n1 (check if nvme isn\'t yet mounted)
2. sudo mkfs.ext4 -E nodiscar

Answer 1

I have been using "c5" type instances since almost a month, "c5d.4xlarge" mostly with nvme drives. So, here's what worked for me:

first get the location nvme is located at:

lsblk

mine always was mounted at nvme1n1 Then check if is an empty volume and doens't any file system, (it mostly doesn't, unless you are remounting). the output should be /dev/nvme1n1: data for empty drives:

sudo file -s /dev/nvme1n1

Then do this to format(if from last step you learned that your drive had file system and isn't an empty drive. skip this and go to next step):

sudo mkfs -t xfs /dev/nvme1n1

Then create a folder in current directory and mount the nvme drive:

sudo mkdir /data
sudo mount /dev/nvme1n1 /data

you can now even check it's existence by running:

df -h