<p>This article describes the instructions for mounting an EBS disk, helping you understand how to mount an EBS disk to an instance.</p> <p><strong>Prerequisites</strong></p> <p>1．To mount an EBS disk, its status must be <strong>To Be Mounted</strong>.</p> <p>2．Only <strong>Running</strong> ECS instances can be mounted with an EBS disk.</p> <p>3．The ECS instance and the EBS disk must be in the same high availability zone.</p> <p><strong>Limitations</strong></p> <p>1．Each ECS instance can be mounted with 6T of EBS.</p> <p>2．Each ECS instance can be mounted with five EBS disks.</p> <p>3．The largest capacity for a single EBS disk is 2000G.</p> <p>4．Pay-by-month EBS disks cannot be created separately.</p> <p><strong>Usage Guidelines</strong></p> <p>1．EBS disks created together with ECS instances do not need to be mounted.</p> <p>2．Pay-by-month EBS disks created together with ECS instances cannot be mounted.</p> <p>3．General-type and SSD-type EBS disks cannot be mounted.</p> <p>4．A separately created EBS disk must select a target instance to be mounted to, but the EBS disk does not need to be mounted.</p> <p><strong>Procedures</strong></p> <p>1．Log in to the<a href="#https://yun.pingan.com/console/ecs/overview" target="_blank"> ECS Console.</a></p> <p>2．In the left navigation pane, click <strong>Instance</strong> to enter the <strong>Instance Management</strong> page.</p> <p>3．Select the target region and click the name of target instance to enter the <strong>Instance Information</strong> page.</p> <p>4．On the <strong>Disk</strong> tab, click <strong>Mount</strong>.</p> <p>5．On the <strong>Select EBS</strong> dialog box that opens, select the target disk instance.</p> <p>6．Click <strong>Confirm.</strong></p> <p><strong>Note:</strong> It takes about two to three minutes to mount an EBS disk, and when the mounting is completed, the status becomes <strong>Using</strong>.</p> <p><strong>Result</strong></p> <p>When the mounting is completed, you will see a message suggesting successful operation at the bottom of the page, and you can view the EBS disk just mounted on the<strong> Disk</strong> tab.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Subsequent Procedures</strong></p> <p>After the EBS disk is mounted, you need to log in to ECS to initialize the EBS disk. Only when the EBS disk has been formatted can it be used normally.</p> <ul> <li>For Linux Operating System, see Data Disk Initialization in Linux Quick Start.</li> <li>For Windows Operating System, see Formatting and Initializing Data Disk in Windows Quick Start.</li> </ul>