I'm a Linux newbie, so I am unfamiliar with the layout of Linux by itself, let alone where files should be on an EBS-backed instance. Furthermore, I am used to operating with an FTP program, though I have figured out the connection part just fine, using PuTTY and WinSCP.
What I want is to be assured that the websites I'm installing on the Bitnami LAMPStack are landing on the EBS instance. I have mounted and re-mounted the EBS in /dev/sdf, but if I use WinSCP to look at the folder, there's nothing there. I want to move the MySQL files and data to the EBS instance, but since I can't see anything under /dev/sdf, there's no place to move them to.
Eventually I want to create a snapshot and move this t1.micro on-demand instance to a reserved instance by creating a snapshot and reloading. So before I go to all this work I need to know that my files will be preserved when I terminate the on-demand instance.
Can someone explain how the operating system and web services are laid out in the Bitnami LAMPStack? I am running this one: ami-025cd332 -- a 64-Bit Ubuntu 12.04 out of us-west-2 (Oregon).
Thanks,
Toolie