¶ Attach a data disk to Ubuntu Azure VM
¶ prerequisites:
- you have a linux VM up and runing (with ssh access)
- you have attached in portal the data disk to the VM
¶ Find the disk:
- using lsblk:
lsblk -o NAME,HCTL,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT | grep -i "sd" - output:
¶ Partiotion a new disk
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note my attached data disk is /dev/sdc
sudo parted /dev/sdc --script mklabel gpt mkpart xfspart xfs 0% 100% sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sdc1 sudo partprobe /dev/sdc1
¶ Mount the disk
- create a directory where to mount
sudo mkdir /datadrive - mount:
sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /datadrive
¶ Automated mount after reboots
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get partition UUID:
sudo blkid -
output:
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edit /etc/fstab
sudo nano /etc/fstab -
add the following line to end of the file replacing UUID with your partition UUID in previous step:
UUID=ad3d4d5e-8df9-48e1-87fb-ec053efa5293 /datadrive xfs defaults,nofail 1 2