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1. Create EBS volume in the EC2 section of the AWS console.
2. Attach EBS volume to `/dev/sdf` sdf` (EC2's external name for this particular device number).

3. Format file system `/dev/xvdf` xvdf` (Ubuntu's internal name for this particular device number):

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   sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/xvdf

4. Mount file system (with update to /etc/fstab so it stays mounted on reboot):

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   sudo mkdir -m 000 /vol echo "/dev/xvdf /vol auto noatime 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab sudo mount /vol

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