why does and EBS volumes mounted in an Ubuntu 12.04 EC2 instance as /dev/sdh1 appear as /dev/xvdh1?

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Published on 2012-06-05T20:55:59Z Indexed on 2012/06/05 22:42 UTC
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When mounting an EBS volume on ubuntu specified as /dev/sdh1 it actually mounts it at /dev/xvdh1. The aws console still thinks it's mounted at /dev/sdh1 so it took a while to realize that it was actually mounted, just in the wrong place

I ran into this problem a long time ago using ubuntu on ec2. I just ran into it again

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/post!reply.jspa?messageID=351382

and it seems like I'm not alone:

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=68957&tstart=0

I haven't found a good answer as to why this happens or how to fix it. Any ideas?

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