Basic directions to attach an EBS volume to an EC2 instance.

EBS Mount

Attached the EBS volume to the EC2 Instance
http://www.webmastersessions.com/how-to-attach-ebs-volume-to-amazon-ec2-instance
Logged in to the EC2 instance, 
The volume should show up as /dev/sdf or something.
	
#Format the volume
sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdf  

#create the directory to link the volume to.
mkdir /spatial-db

#link the directory to the EDS Volume by modifying the fstab file
echo “/dev/sdf /spatial-db ext3 noatime 0 0″ >> /etc/fstab

#mount the directory
mount /spatial-db

#check the disk size
df -h /spatial-db