Create an EBS volume for the existing EC2 machine in the same region

 Create an EBS volume for the existing EC2 machine in the same region

 Step 1: Head over to EC2 –> Volumes and create a new volume of your preferred size and type.

Step 2: Select the created volume, right-click and select the “attach volume” option.

Step 3: Select the ec2 instance from the instance text box as shown below

Step 4: Now, login to your ec2 instance and list the available disks using the following command. lsblk

Step 5: Check if the volume has any data using the following command.

sudo file -s /dev/xvdf

If the above command output shows “/dev/xvdf: data“, it means your volume is empty.

Step 6: Format the volume to the ext4 filesystem using the following command.

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/xvdf

Alternatively, you can also use the xfs format. You have to use either ext4 or xfs.

 sudo mkfs -t xfs /dev/xvdf
Step 7: Create a directory of your choice to mount our new ext4 volume. I am using the name “newvolume“. You can name it something meaningful to you.
sudo mkdir /newvolume
Step 8: Mount the volume to “newvolume” directory using the following command.
sudo mount /dev/xvdf /newvolume/
Step 9: cd into newvolume directory and check the disk space to validate the volume mount.
cd /newvolume
df -h .
The above command should show the free space in the newvolume directory.