Create EBS Volume

description

This page shows how to create a new volume in an avaliability zone

Note

This depends on a zone, to get a list of avaliable zone in a specific region, check –lst-zones

command-line

>>> ./volumes --create-volume OPTIONS
All parameters should be in format parameter=valie
Options:
        --region, -r              region of interest EU1,USE1,USW1,Asia1
        --zone,-z                 Avaliability Zone of interest
        --from-snapshot,-snap     ID for a snapshot
        --size,-s                 Size of new volume
**Note**: Either --size(-s) or -snap (--from-snapshot) should exist in the paramters
AWS Credentials
        --private-Key, -pk        path of the private file
        --certificate, -cert      path of the cert file
        --conf                    take credentials from preconfigured file

Example 1

Create a new volume 10GB volume in zone eu-west-1b in region EU1

volumes --create-volume -r=EU1 -z=eu-west-1b -s=10

Output

vol-dc6ca2b4

Example 2

Create a new volume from snapshot snap-1626626 volume in zone eu-west-1b in region EU1

volumes --create-volume -r=EU1 -z=eu-west-1b -snap=snap-1626626

Output

vol-dc6ca2be