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Note:\u00a0<\/span><\/b>This tutorial applies to\u00a0<\/span>Linux\u00a0<\/span><\/b>operating systems using the\u00a0<\/span>ext4 file system<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In xneelo Cloud you can\u00a0<\/span>create new volumes<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and attach them to your instances at any time.<\/span><\/p>\n

When a new volume is attached, it\u00a0<\/span>is not automatically mounted\u00a0<\/span><\/b>to the instance. You\u2019ll need to do this manually.<\/span><\/p>\n

This requires both the file system to be created and the volume to be mounted so that it is accessible. Follow the steps below to learn how.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"Note:\u00a0<\/span><\/b>This tutorial applies to\u00a0<\/span>Linux\u00a0<\/span><\/b>operating systems using the\u00a0<\/span>ext4 file system<\/b>.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn xneelo Cloud you can\u00a0<\/span>create new volumes<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and attach them to your instances at any time.<\/span>\r\n\r\nWhen a new volume is attached, it\u00a0<\/span>is not automatically mounted\u00a0<\/span><\/b>to the instance. You\u2019ll need to do this manually.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThis requires both the file system to be created and the volume to be mounted so that it is accessible. Follow the steps below to learn how.<\/span>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Create a file system on a newly created volume that\u2019s attached to an instance and mount it to the instance so that it is accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lsx_disable_title":"0","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18591],"tags":[22578,19715,19718,19532,19508,18711],"topics":[21413,21392,18723],"class_list":["post-38102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","tag-mount-a-volume","tag-how-to-mount-a-new-volume-to-an-instance","tag-volume-mount","tag-cloud-control-panel","tag-cloud-hosting","tag-cloud","topics-storage","topics-volumes","topics-xneelo-cloud"],"acf":[],"additional_meta":{"category_title":[{"term_id":18591,"name":"Cloud","slug":"cloud","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18591,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":47,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2","cat_ID":18591,"category_count":47,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Cloud","category_nicename":"cloud","category_parent":0}],"tag_title":[{"term_id":22578,"name":"mount a volume","slug":"mount-a-volume","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":22578,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"631"},{"term_id":19715,"name":"How to mount a new volume to an instance","slug":"how-to-mount-a-new-volume-to-an-instance","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19715,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1566"},{"term_id":19718,"name":"volume mount","slug":"volume-mount","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19718,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1567"},{"term_id":19532,"name":"cloud control panel","slug":"cloud-control-panel","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19532,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1630"},{"term_id":19508,"name":"cloud hosting","slug":"cloud-hosting","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19508,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":6,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1636"},{"term_id":18711,"name":"cloud","slug":"cloud","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18711,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":18,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1895"}]},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Alexia Papadatos","author_link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/author\/alexia\/","author_avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9dc491b1be8ef5ac4a33e742399256d17daf7e6fe70bc88cce1a7bbc06c1a406?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38102"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=38102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}