Mounting from an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instance

You can mount your file system from an Amazon EC2 instance.

To mount your file system from Amazon EC2

1. Connect to your Amazon EC2 instance.

2. Make a directory on your FSx for Lustre file system for the mount point with the following command.

   $ sudo mkdir -p /fsx

3. Mount the Amazon FSx for Lustre file system to the directory that you created. Use the following command and replace the following items:

   • Replace file_system_dns_name with the actual file system's DNS name.

   • Replace mountname with the file system's mount name. This mount name is returned in the CreateFileSystem API operation response. It's also returned in the response of the describe-file-systems AWS CLI command, and the DescribeFileSystems API operation.

   sudo mount -t lustre -o noatime,flock file_system_dns_name@tcp:/mountname /fsx

   This command mounts your file system with two options, -o noatime and flock:

   • noatime – Turns off updates to inode access times. To update inode access times, use the mount command without noatime.

   • flock – Enables file locking for your file system. If you don't want file locking enabled, use the mount command without flock.

4. Verify that the mount command was successful by listing the contents of the directory to which you mounted the file system, /mnt/fsx by using the following command.

   $ ls /fsx
   import-path  lustre
   $ 

   You can also use the df command, following.

   $ df
   Filesystem                    1K-blocks    Used  Available Use% Mounted on
   devtmpfs                        1001808       0    1001808   0% /dev
   tmpfs                           1019760       0    1019760   0% /dev/shm
   tmpfs                           1019760     392    1019368   1% /run
   tmpfs                           1019760       0    1019760   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
   /dev/xvda1                      8376300 1263180    7113120  16% /
   123.456.789.0@tcp:/mountname 3547698816   13824 3547678848   1% /fsx
   tmpfs                            203956       0     203956   0% /run/user/1000
   

   The results show the Amazon FSx file system mounted on /fsx.