Best Practices for creating/mounting new AWS EBS volumes

Terraform
1

I was wondering if there are recommended best practices for creating extfs filesystems and then mounting those after you provision/attach the EBS volume through Terraform:

resource “aws_ebs_volume” “bookie0” {
availability_zone = “eu-west-1a”
type = “gp2”
size = 40
}

resource “aws_volume_attachment” “ebs_att” {
device_name = “/dev/sdf”
volume_id = aws_ebs_volume.bookie0.id
instance_id = aws_instance.bookie0.id
}

What I get here is a EBS volume attached to the AWS Instance as /dev/sdf. Which if what I would expect. But now we need to create a filesystem on that device and mount it.

  1. Should something like this be done through Terraform?
  2. What is the recommended way of doing this?
2

Is this forum dead or what’s the deal here - I expected to see a reply of some sort at least.