[mount EBS volume to AWS EC2]

mount-ebs.sh

#!/bin/bash

# this command list attached volumes; make sure the volume to mount
# is in the list
lsblk

# see if the volume contains file system (skipped if for sure).
# the name of the volume is denoted here as `/dev/xvdf', which
# should be listed in the output of `lsblk'.
# If the output is `/dev/xvdf: data', then it does not have
# file system
#sudo file -s /dev/xvdf

# if no file system is found, make one. Replace FSNAME with the
# file system name
#sudo mkfs -t FSNAME /dev/xvdf

# make mount point named NAME and mount
mkdir NAME
sudo mount /dev/xvdf NAME