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How to add EBS volume to Linux machine in AWS

1.     Login to AWS console
2.     Create 50 GB volume
3.     Attach to the Linux instance
4.     Login to the Linux server
5.     After completing above step, now new volume will list your system. You can check this using ‘fdisk -l‘ command
6.     Create a File system to newly added EBS volume with below command (In my case new disk      is:/xvdj)
mkfs /dev/xvdj
7.     Make a directory with below command (In my case directory name is "mountdriveE")
mkdir /mountdriveE
8.     Mount this disk to mount point with below command
mount /dev/xvdj /mountdriveE
9.     Add below entry at the end of file /etc/fstab for permanent

/dev/xvdj    /mountdriveE  ext4    defaults        1 1
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