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Creating a snapshot of an attached EBS volume is not working

I'm trying to create a snapshot of an 8GB volume attached to another instance whose device is named sdh5. I originally created this volume myself and mounted it as an ext4 filesystem. Now I'm trying ...
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Bad to Detach AWS EBS volume before Unmounting?

I've attached a snapshot of another volume to a test Instance on AWS. Both instances run Ubuntu Lucid. I've tried to unmount the test instance but it's claiming that the device is busy. I think ...
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How do you map an AWS volume to a Windows EC2 drive letter?

In my Windows EC2 instance I have 3 drive: C, D, and E. C: 30 GB D: 1 GB E: 1 GB In my AWS console, I have the following volumes: vol-e0059988 (1 GB) vol-ec059984 (1 GB) vol-ea059982 (30 GB) ...
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How do I shrink an EBS volume on Windows Server 2008?

I have a Windows Server 2008 instance on EC2. I need to shrink one of the drives (non-root) to a certain amount. Is there are well defined way of doing it? Thanks