Add A Volume in Linux

Hostwinds offers your the ability to add storage to your VPS through volumes. This article will take you through the steps of creating a storage volume in your cloud portal and mounting it on your Linux VPS.

 

Adding the Volume

First we begin by logging into the Hostwinds Client Area.

 

•  From your client area click on Cloud Control, when you see the drop down click on Cloud Portal.

 

 

• After being redirected to the next page, click on Storage then Volumes.

  

• Create your volume by selecting the following:
  • Select the Volume Size from the drop down menu
  • Provide Volume name that you can easily remember
  • Select the Volume Location from the drop down menu
  • Click the Add Volume button

    

 

• Once the volume has been created, click on the Actions button on the right side of the Volume to attach the Volume to a VPS.

  

 

• You will get a pop-up where you can choose the VPS from the drop down menu to attach the volume to

  

Once the volume has been attached you will see a similar image letting you know the device that has been attached.

 

Partitioning The Volume

• Log into the VPS and check your device.
  

You will see the unpartitioned disk /dev/sdb 

• Use parted to partition the disk with the following commands.

The output should be similar to this

• Format your partition with desired file system. In this case we’re using xfs .

 

 

Mounting the volume

• Create a directory where you wish to mount. In this example, the directory name is /mnt/myvolume 

• Get the unique identifier or UUID of  /dev/sdb1. 

 

• Using your favorite text editor edit your modify the /etc/fstab  adding the line below. Note that this is a unique identify for each device. Make sure to acquire the UUID of your drive using the blkid  as detailed above and replace /mnt/myvolume  with the directory name you mounted your Volume to

 

 

• Run the mount command to mount the Volume drive to the mount point of your choosing

 

 

• To verify that it’s been mounted.