Deleting mount targets - Amazon Elastic File System
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Deleting mount targets

When you delete a mount target, the operation forcibly breaks any mounts of the file system, which might disrupt instances or applications using those mounts. To avoid application disruption, stop applications and unmount the file system before deleting the mount target. For more information, see Unmounting file systems.

You can delete mount targets for a file system by using the Amazon Web Services Management Console, Amazon CLI, or programmatically by using the Amazon SDKs.

Use the following procedure to delete mount targets for an existing EFS file system.

To delete mount targets on an EFS file system

  1. Unmount the file system. For instructions, see Unmounting file systems.

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

  3. In the left navigation pane, choose File systems, and then select the file system for which you want to delete the mount target.

  4. Choose Network and then choose Manage to display the mount targets for the file system.

  5. For each mount target you want to delete, choose Remove.

  6. Choose Save.

To delete an existing mount target, use the delete-mount-target Amazon CLI command (corresponding operation is DeleteMountTarget), as shown following.

Note

Before deleting a mount target, first unmount the file system.

$ aws efs delete-mount-target \
--mount-target-id mount-target-ID-to-delete \
--region aws-region-where-mount-target-exists

The following is an example with sample data.

$ aws efs delete-mount-target \
--mount-target-id fsmt-5751852e \
--region us-east-2 \