Mounting Vultr Block Storage volume on Linux provides flexible and scalable file storage for Vultr Cloud Compute instances. Linux distributions including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Rocky Linux, Alma Linux, Arch Linux, and Alpine Linux support NVMe and HDD-based Vultr Block Storage volumes.
Follow this guide to mount Vultr Block Storage Volume on Linux.
Attach Vultr Block Storage Volume to Linux.
Use the lsblk
utility to list all storage disks attached to the Vultr Cloud Compute instance and verify the Vultr Block Storage volume disk name.
$ lsblk
Output:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
vda 254:0 0 25G 0 disk
├─vda1 254:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
└─vda2 254:2 0 24.5G 0 part /
vdb 254:16 0 40G 0 disk
The Vultr Block Storage volume attaches as /vdb
based on the above output. The first Vultr Block storage volume attaches to Linux as /dev/vdb
and additional volume disk names increment in alphabetical order, such as /dev/vdc
and /dev/vdd
.
Create a new disk label using the parted
utility.
$ sudo parted -s /dev/vdb mklabel gpt
Create a primary partition to fill the entire disk space.
$ sudo parted -s /dev/vdb unit mib mkpart primary 0% 100%
Create an EXT4 file system on the primary partition and format it.
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdb1
Output:
mke2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Discarding disk blocks: done
Creating filesystem with 10485248 4k blocks and 2621440 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 95b1f596-e044-4dcd-beb3-a94877960e4d
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (65536 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
Create a new mount point directory for the Vultr Block Storage volume partition.
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/blockstorage
View detailed information about the Vultr Block Storage volume partition and note its UUID value.
$ sudo blkid /dev/vdb1
Output:
/dev/vdb1: UUID="95b1f596-e044-4dcd-beb3-a94877960e4d" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="a7eb098c-288d-4040-9aac-38b36d4e63e7"
Add a new entry to the /etc/fstab
file to automatically mount the Vultr Block Storage volume at boot. Replace UUID-VALUE
with the actual Vultr Block Storage volume partition UUID.
$ sudo echo >> sudo /etc/fstab
$ sudo echo "UUID=UUID-VALUE /mnt/blockstorage ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail 0 0" >> sudo /etc/fstab
Mount the Vultr Block Storage volume partition.
$ mount /mnt/blockstorage
View all active storage volumes on the Vultr Cloud Compute instance and verify that the new Vultr Block Storage volume is available.
$ lsblk
Output:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
vda 254:0 0 25G 0 disk
├─vda1 254:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
└─vda2 254:2 0 24.5G 0 part /
vdb 254:16 0 40G 0 disk
└─vdb1 254:17 0 40G 0 part /mnt/blockstorage