Formatting a Disk on Amazon EC2

02/10/2015

The following commands will format and mount your disk on a newly created EC2 machine:

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/xvdb 
sudo mkdir /storage
sudo sed -i '\|^/dev/xvdb| d' /etc/fstab # delete existing entry if it exists
sudo sh -c 'echo "/dev/xvdb /storage ext4 defaults,nobootwait,noatime,nodiratime 0 2" >> /etc/fstab'
sudo mount -a