What is the risk of detaching a volume from an instance while it's in use?

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Mahesh B · Accepted Answer

Detaching an EBS volume from an EC2 instance while it's in use can cause data loss and file system corruption, which can lead to application errors and difficulties in recovering the data.

Santhosh Kumar · Answer

Detaching an EBS volume while in use can cause data loss, application downtime, file system corrption

keerthivassan N · Answer

. Data Loss or Corruption Peding files may be lost(currently getting written) File systems may become corrupted. Filesystem Inconsistency

What is the risk of detaching a volume from an instance while it's in use?

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