If you have opted for a storage add-on, and the drive has been added as a secondary drive, appart from your boot drive, depending on your linux distribution, you will have to add the drive in the operating system manualy.
This is usually a simple task, 1- to 15 minutes max, and has to be done only once for each drive added.
You can also install an add-on like cockpit, and do this in WEB GUI.
https://cockpit-project.org/running.html
If you prefer manual CLI setup, there are some things to consider, we recommend these as we have done extensive testing on this subject.
- Always add the drive using UUID in /etc/fstab
- Create a GPT partition table, not MBR. MBR has a limit of 2TB
- Format the new drive with XFS file system not EXT4. DO NOT USE ZFS in VPS!
- Mount the drive in /mnt/XXTB-disk0Y, XX representing the size of the drive and y the number, as you might have 1,2 or more.
We recomend that you follow these links as guidance, please change the drive ID/NAME according to your system:
Linux in General: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-partition-and-format-storage-devices-in-linux
Ubuntu/Debian: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-finding-using-uuids-to-update-fstab/
Centos: https://www.answertopia.com/centos-stream/adding-a-new-disk-drive-to-a-centos-stream-system/
