ec2-udev-scripts

Some udev rules and scripts to enable /dev/disk/by-ebs-volumeid

EC2 Requirements

1. boto - https://github.com/boto/boto
2. EC2 IAM Role with ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/UsingIAM.html

Setup

1. sudo cp 52-ec2-volid.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
2. sudo cp ec2_dev_2_volid.py /sbin
3. sudo cp ec2blkdev /etc/init.d
4. sudo chkconfig ec2blkdev on
5. sudo service ec2blkdev start

Mounting volumes

To mount using the /dev/disk/by-ebs-volumeid/vol-xxxxxxx path, you should add _netdev to the options

[ec2-user@ip-10-244-161-112 ~]$ cat /etc/fstab

LABEL=/ / ext4 defaults,noatime 1 1 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda3 none swap sw,comment=cloudconfig 0 0 /dev/disk/by-ebs-volumeid/vol-eaa74883 /mnt/ebs ext4 defaults,noatime,_netdev 0 0 [ec2-user@ip-10-244-161-112 ~]