Hi

I'm trying to create a storage space outside of my main disk image.

I've created a blank disk image for this called "Storage"

I've now created a Configuration Profile with the following block device assignemnts

/dev/xvda Ubuntu
/dev/xvda 512MB Swap Image
/dev/xvda Storage

Ubuntu starts just fine, but I don't know how to mount "Storage"

If I run a mount command, I get

/dev/xvda on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)

Please could anyone help me add the storage that sits outside of the O/S to this system?

Cheers

Jibb

You can't have xvda for every single disk image... You would have a different device for each image.

Oops - I was typing that too late at night

That should have read:

/dev/xvda Ubuntu
/dev/xvdb 512MB Swap Image
/dev/xvdc Storage

Oh wow - I've done it. I've no idea if I'm doing this the right way or the best way, but it works.

Create temp disk

Linode manager > Create a new disk image > Give it a name and keep it as type "ext3"


Assign the disk to Configuration Profile

Linode manager > Edit configuration profile > Block device assignment >

Select the name from the dropdown against /dev/xvdc


Edit fstab

Make a backup copy of your /etc/fstab

Edit /etc/fstab with nano

nano /etc/fstab

Add the line highlighted red

root@test:/test# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/xvda / ext3 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/xvdb none swap sw 0 0
/dev/xvdc /test ext3 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1

(I have set this to mount as /test by default

Save the file and reboot your linode


Mount the device

mount /dev/xvdc /test


Done

You now have a storage area that sits outside of your operating system, so you can back files up here and trash the O/S





I'm not very experienced with Linux, so I've no doubt that there are better ways of doing this - but this seems easy and works for me.