How to make an Amazon EBS Volume Available for Use - mount

How to make an Amazon EBS Volume Available for Use
Please find the steps to mount EBS volume to Ec2 instance

• Attach to EC2 intance
• Login to EC2 instance
• lsblk - gives list of volumes
• NAME    MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
• xvda 202:0 0 8G 0 disk
• xvda1 202:1 0 8G 0 part /
• xvdf 202:80 0 10G 0 disk
• sudo file -s /dev/xvdf #for new volumes (it shows as data)
• /dev/xvdf: data
• sudo file -s /dev/xvda1 #for existing
• /dev/xvda1: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=XXXXX-XXXX-XXXXX-XXXX-XXXXXX (needs journal recovery) (extents) (large files) (huge files)
• cd ~
• mkdir ebsvolume
• sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/xvdf
• sudo mount /dev/xvdf ebsvolume
• df -h
• lsblk
• NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
• xvda 202:0 0 8G 0 disk
• └─xvda1 202:1 0 8G 0 part /
• xvdf 202:80 0 10G 0 disk /root/ebsvolume

Note:

EC2 instance, EBS volumes must be in a same AZ