How do I add an extra / additional hard drive?

The technical support team can add an extra SSD. For installing the drive, we need to shut down your server (downtime ~ 30 min).


If as requested we have added the drive to the server and restarted it. You can format the filesystem and add drive to your OS. In this case Ubuntu server.


lsblk






NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) is a specification for accessing drives through PCI Express; it is tailored to meet the needs of non-volatile memory. For example, the connection via PCIe Gen3 x4 (32 GBit/s) provides five times faster access speed and lower latency than the traditional SATA 3 (6GBit/s) interface. Due to the high degree of parallelism and low energy consumption, they allow users to meet current and future memory needs.




mkfs.ext4 -j -L backup /dev/nvme2n1



apt-get install nvme-cli

Getting information about hard drive

nvme list





nvme id-ctrl /dev/nvme2n1|egrep "sn |mn "


blkid /dev/nvme2n1

/dev/nvme2n1: LABEL="backup" UUID="378cdb81-98c8-44b7-95a2-22bd60a0707b" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"


mount /dev/nvme2n1 /mnt/backup


vim /etc/fstab


# /dev/nvme2n1

UUID=378cdb81-98c8-44b7-95a2-22bd60a0707b /mnt/backup ext4 defaults 0 0