Oracle Cloud mount Paravirtualized Disk

[jackblk]

Check the connected volume

# check if the disk is connected
ls -l /dev/oracleoci/oraclevd*

# make file system for a new disk
sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/oracleoci/oraclevdb

# mount to a new folder
sudo mkdir /datadisk
sudo mount /dev/oracleoci/oraclevdb /datadisk

# check disk free
df -h

Adding the volume to fstab

# check uuid of block vol
blkid

# add it to /etc/fstab
vi /etc/fstab

New line of fstab should be:

UUID="925f47c8-5756-4d72-8120-028a9316c94d" /datadisk ext4 defaults,noatime,_netdev,nofail 0 2

Ref:

• https://oracledbwr.com/oracle-gen2-cloud-attaching-a-block-volume-to-an-instance/
• https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Block/References/fstaboptionsconsistentdevicepaths.htm