SCP to instance store of aws instance

Question

I have an instance of ec2 which has a root device and a instance store attached to it. When I scp to the root device then there is no problem, but when I scp to the instance store then it gives me permission denied error. The command I am using is following scp -i/home/usmanmahmood/Desktop/abc/UsmanMahmood_KP.pem ~/Desktop/iozone3_414.tar [email protected]:/mnt

The error which comes is scp: /mnt/iozone3_414.tar: Permission denied.

Can you tell me what the problem is, and is the instance storage is on mnt ? I am doing mnt because when I do "df -h" after loging in to the ec2 by ssh I get the following output

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 7.9G 876M 6.7G 12% / udev 819M 12K 819M 1% /dev tmpfs 331M 168K 331M 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 827M 0 827M 0% /run/shm /dev/xvdb 147G 188M 140G 1% /mnt

From the last I think that the instance store is on /mnt Help please

The user ubuntu probably has no access to /mnt You can either give the user access or upload to another directory before moving it to the instance store. — datasage

Jeevan Dongre Jeevan Dongre · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-28T09:06:30

You can't actually scp to the instance store, its not persistent store device which is attached to it, please be aware of the fact that if you reboot or shut down the instance you may loss that data which is stored the instance store, so I dont suggest you to store any critical data in the /mnt/. Obviously you will not have any access.

SCP to instance store of aws instance

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