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1. After booting up, the VM should now have an additional disk, typically named vd(SOME_LETTER) - below, we assume the disk is named vdb, but it may be vdc, vdd, etc if you already had a second, third, etc disk.  You can check what disks are attached by running lsblk , which shows disks (e.g. vda, vdb) and partitions on the disks (vda1, vda2, etc for partitions 1 & 2 on vda)
   

   1. You should expect to see something like this, showing vdb with no partitions:

      
      

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      NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT vda 252:0 0 20G 0 disk ├─vda1 252:1 0 19.9G 0 part / ├─vda14 252:14 0 4M 0 part └─vda15 252:15 0 106M 0 part /boot/efi vdb 252:16 0 128G 0 disk

      
      

      Warning
      vda is your root disk - do not reformat this!

      
      

   2. If you don't see the new disk, check that it was successfully created by Morpheus (see creation section above). If it's there in Morpheus, you can try triggering a rescan of the new disk with either one of:
   3.  sudo echo 1 > /sys/class/block/vdb/device/rescan

   Code Block
   sudo apt-get install scsitools # or yum install sg3_utils for CentOS sudo rescan-scsi-bus.sh

   If still no new disk is visiblebut not visible in the VM, please contact support

2. Create a single partition (number 1, so vdb1) filling the disk, labelled "data-1" here, and format it. You may use parted and mkfs.ext4:

   1. Please change the label name to match what you called the new disk in the Morpheus interface (this is not a requirement, but reduces confusion later)

      Code Block
      sudo parted --script -- /dev/vdb mklabel gpt sudo parted --script --align optimal -- /dev/vdb mkpart primary ext4 0% 100% sudo mkfs.ext4 -L data-1 /dev/vdb1

      
      

      Info
      You may partition the disk differently and use any other filesystem type. It is a good idea to use the same name for the volume to set the label of the new filesystem

      
      

3. To have the disk automounted on start up, add an entry to your VM's /etc/fstab, adapting the label to the name you chose earlier:

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      Code Block
      ​echo "LABEL=data-1 /data1 ext4 defaults 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab > /dev/null

      
      

4. Create the directory where you are mounting your filesystem. Make sure you use the same path as defined in fstab:

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   sudo mkdir /data1

   
   

5. Mount the file system this first time around and check its ok.  It should be automatically mounted on future reboots (test this now if it's important).

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   sudo mount -av

   
   

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