infra/runbooks/new-drive.md

Mounting an attached drive

Assumptions:

• New drive is attached(in AWS) and detected in software Ideally attachment is made through terraform

Mounting Instructions (Step-by-Step)

1. Verify data does not have data: sudo file -s /dev/xvdf

Should return data if its ok. Other wise we're probably looking at the wrong drive.

2. Create the filesystem on the new empty drive: sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/xvdf

3. Create mountpoint other wares to actaully use the drive sudo mkdir /mnt/example.

Change example to something that actually makes sense.

4. Add a new entry to /etc/fstab for automounting

/dev/xvdf /newvolume ext4 defaults,nofail 0 0

Tab delimited btw.

5. Mount all drives listed in /etc/fstab from before. sudo mount -a