title: Can one persistent volume by consumed by several persistent volume claims?
body: <p>Is it correct to assume that one PV can be consumed by several PVCs and each pod instance needs one binding of PVC? I'm asking because I created a PV and then a PVC with different size requirements such as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>kind: PersistentVolume
  apiVersion: v1
  metadata:
    name: k8sdisk
    labels:
      type: amazonEBS
  spec:
    capacity:
      storage: 200Gi
    accessModes:
      - ReadWriteOnce
    awsElasticBlockStore:
      volumeID: vol-xxxxxx
      fsType: ext4
  
  
  kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
  apiVersion: v1
  metadata:
    name: couchbase-pvc
    labels:
      type: amazonEBS
  spec:
    accessModes:
      - ReadWriteOnce
    resources:
      requests:
        storage: 5Gi
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when I use the PVC with the pod, it shows as 200GB available instead of the 5GB. </p>
  
  <p>I'm sure I'm mixing things, but could not find a reasonable explanation.</p>