Ubuntu–Adding An Extra Disk To The Server

Note – these instructions don’t cover the physical side of adding a disk to your server. They assume that the disk has already been added and that we’re back at the command line.

# confirm details of second disk

sudo lshw -C disk

# open fdisk partitioning tool (assuming new disk is /dev/sdb)

sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

# at the menu press "n" and "enter" to create a new partition

# press "p" to create a primary partition

# press "1" to create 1 partition

# press enter to accept the default start position of the partition

# press enter to accept the default end position of the partition

# press "w" to write the partition

# create the filesystem

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1

# create the mount point

sudo mkdir /srv

# automount the partition on startup - edit the fstab

sudo nano /etc/fstab

# add the following line

/dev/sdb1 /srv ext4 defaults 0 1

# remount the filesystems

sudo mount -a

To finish reboot the server and confirm the changes have taken affect and remain intact after the reboot.