Use Amazon EFS with Amazon EC2 - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Test the EFS file systemDelete the EFS file system
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Use Amazon EFS with Amazon EC2

Amazon EFS provides scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2. You can use an EFS file system as a common data source for workloads and applications running on multiple instances. For more information, see the Amazon Elastic File System product page.

For a tutorial on how to create a file system using the Amazon EFS console, see Getting started with Amazon Elastic File System in the Amazon Elastic File System User Guide.

Important

Amazon EFS is not supported on Windows instances.

Test the EFS file system

You can connect to your instance and verify that the file system is mounted to the directory that you specified (for example, /mnt/efs).

To verify that the file system is mounted

  1. Connect to your instance. For more information, see Connect to your Linux instance.

  2. From the terminal window for the instance, run the df -T command to verify that the EFS file system is mounted.

    $ df -T
Filesystem     Type              1K-blocks    Used          Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1     ext4                8123812 1949800            6073764  25% /
devtmpfs       devtmpfs            4078468      56            4078412   1% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs               4089312       0            4089312   0% /dev/shm
efs-dns        nfs4       9007199254740992       0   9007199254740992   0% /mnt/efs

    Note that the name of the file system, shown in the example output as efs-dns, has the following form.

    file-system-id.efs.aws-region.amazonaws.com:/

  3. (Optional) Create a file in the file system from the instance, and then verify that you can view the file from another instance.

    1. From the instance, run the following command to create the file.

      $ sudo touch /mnt/efs/test-file.txt

    2. From the other instance, run the following command to view the file.

      $ ls /mnt/efs
test-file.txt

Delete the EFS file system

If you no longer need your file system, you can delete it.

To delete the file system

  1. Open the Amazon Elastic File System console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/efs/.

  2. Select the file system to delete.

  3. Choose Actions, Delete file system.

  4. When prompted for confirmation, enter the file system ID and choose Delete file system.