Mounting EFS file systems
In the following section, you can learn how to mount your Amazon EFS file system on
an Amazon EC2 Linux
instance using the Amazon EFS mount helper. In addition, you can find how to use the
file fstab
to automatically remount your file system after any
system restarts. Using the EFS mount helper, you have the following options for mounting
your Amazon EFS file system:
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Mounting on supported EC2 instances
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Mounting with IAM authorization
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Mounting with Amazon EFS access points
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Mounting with an on-premise Linux client
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Auto-mounting when an EC2 instance reboots
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Mounting a file system when a new EC2 instance launches
The EFS mount helper is part of the amazon-efs-utils
package.
The amazon-efs-utils
package is an open-source
collection of Amazon EFS tools. For more information, see Manually installing the Amazon EFS client.
Amazon EFS does not support mounting from Amazon EC2 Windows instances.
Before the Amazon EFS mount helper was available, we recommended mounting your Amazon EFS file systems using the standard Linux NFS client. For more information, see Mounting file systems without the EFS mount helper.
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