View information about an Amazon EBS volume
You can view descriptive information about your EBS volumes. For example, you can view information about all volumes in a specific Region or view detailed information about a single volume, including its size, volume type, whether the volume is encrypted, which master key was used to encrypt the volume, and the specific instance to which the volume is attached.
You can get additional information about your EBS volumes, such as how much disk space is available, from the operating system on the instance.
View volume information
You can view information about a volume using one of the following methods.
Volume state
Volume state describes the availability of an Amazon EBS volume. You can view the volume state in the State column on the Volumes page in the console, or by using the describe-volumes Amazon CLI command.
The possible volume states are:
creating
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The volume is being created.
available
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The volume is not attached to an instance.
in-use
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The volume is attached to an instance.
deleting
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The volume is being deleted.
deleted
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The volume is deleted.
error
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The underlying hardware related to your EBS volume has failed, and the data associated with the volume is unrecoverable. For information about how to restore the volume or recover the data on the volume, see My EBS volume has a status of "error"
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View volume metrics
You can get additional information about your EBS volumes from Amazon CloudWatch. For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EBS.
View free disk space
You can get additional information about your EBS volumes, such as how much disk space is available, from the Linux operating system on the instance. For example, use the following command:
[ec2-user ~]$
df -hT /dev/xvda1
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 xfs 8.0G 1.2G 6.9G 15% /
You can also use the CloudWatch agent to collect disk space usage metrics from an Amazon EC2 instance without connecting to the instance. For more information, see Create the CloudWatch agent configuration file and Installing the CloudWatch agent in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. If you need to monitor disk space usage for multiple instances, you can install and configure the CloudWatch agent on those instances using Systems Manager. For more information, see Installing the CloudWatch agent using Systems Manager.
For information about viewing free disk space on a Windows instance, see View free disk space in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Windows Instances.