Mount EFS on EC2 Instance

You might have created an Elastic File System (EFS) and now would like to mount it on EC2 instance.

• Get EFS link

• Mount EFS on EC2

• Add to /etc/fstab

Get EFS link

Check the EFS details and you should get a link which looks like below

fs-06b8137f.efs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:/

Mount EFS on EC2

Create a directory on your server where you will mount the EFS

mkdir /efs

Mount the efs on /efs directory

mount -t nfs4 fs-06b8137f.efs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:/ /efs

Check if mounting is done properly

df -hT /efs

Add to /etc/fstab

Make the mounting permanent under /etc/fstab file

vi /etc/fstab

fs-06b8137f.efs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:/ /efs          nfs4     _netdev     0     0