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benmccann
Asked: 2014-03-12 20:55:37 +0800 CST

How do I use the disks on an EC2 hi1.4xlarge spot instance

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I'd like to try out EC2 and so I'd like to launch a cheap spot instance to play around with. The hi1.4xlarge is supposed to have 2 SSDs, but I can't find them on the machine. I've launched the instance with ami-58a3cf68 image, which is a 64-bit paravirtual Ubuntu 12.04 instance storage image.

During the setup phase, it says the disks will be /dev/sdb ad /dev/sdc.

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However, when I log onto the machine, these disks don't appear to exist:

$ ls /dev/sdb
ls: cannot access /dev/sdb: No such file or directory
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try /dev/xvdb and /dev/xvdc instead.

    Unfortunately there are a couple different "standards" for how to refer to device names in linux. Gotta love it, eh?

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