Additional Volume Public Cloud Ovh

Adding an extra disk or volume to your OVH Public Cloud instance takes a few manual steps. Here’s how to do it.

First, identify your new disk:

fdisk -l

The output will vary depending on your system (sd{x}, vd{x}).

Then create a new partition:

# parted /dev/{{disk}}
mktable gpt
mkpart primary ext4 512 100%
quit

Format it:

mkfs -t ext4 -L rootfs /dev/{{disk}}1

Mount it:

mount /dev/{{disk}}1 /mnt

To make this persistent across reboots, we’ll need the volume’s UUID, which we can grab from the block ID.

# blkid
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="6b75bbb4-b311-4b9d-a8fd-6e6ff23c401f" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="primary" 
PARTUUID="e20dc227-9d10-41c4-a714-2fb53d190c11"
/dev/sda1: UUID="9abb590f-8a5e-496f-ad2a-2c877415bdc5" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="71036eb1-01"

Add it to /etc/fstab along with the mount information.

# vim /etc/fstab
[...]
UUID=6b75bbb4-b311-4b9d-a8fd-6e6ff23c401f /mnt ext4 errors=remount-ro,discard 0 1

Reboot once to confirm everything is configured correctly.