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Mounting an Volume

After attaching an volume you have to manually mount it to your VPS to use it

Step 1

Finding the volume

• ssh into your VPS
• run

lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,TYPE,MOUNTPOINT

• vda is the main volume, you are not supposed to touch it, there would be other volumes with names like sda, sda1, sda2 etc., confirm it by checking the SIZE
• SIZE would be same as to the size of volume you attached in the beginning
• The TYPE would be disk for the volume and MOUNTPOINT would be empty
• Let's say NAME sda is of SIZE 30G, it is the required volume, I'll use sda in the steps below as an example

Step 2

Mounting the volume

• First change the file system of the disk to ext4

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda

• Mount it to the desired location, by creating a directory. Let's say I want to mount the volume to /home/data/vol1, then

mkdir -p /home/data/vol1

• Now, to mount it, requires sudo permission

mount /dev/sda /home/data/vol1

• Lastly, create an entry in /etc/fstab to retain the mount after reboot, requires sudo permission

nano /etc/fstab
OR
vim /etc/fstab
OR
gedit /etc/fstab

Make an entry like this, /dev/sda being the disk

/dev/sda /home/data/vol1 ext4 defaults 0 0

Step 3

Checking if the volume was successfully mounted or not

• run

lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,FSTYPE,TYPE,MOUNTPOINT

• After following the steps above, the FSTYPE should reflect ext4 for the NAME sda
• MOUNTPOINT should show /home/data/vol1 for the NAME sda
• If the values are correct then the volume is ready to use