Adding a partition (or disk) to a server with the ispmanager panel

Why?

The panel stores sites and user mail in the /var/www/ directory, and databases in the /var/lib/ directory. So to use a separate disk for storing sites and mail, use the mount point /var/www/, and for databases – /var/lib/. You can also use the /var/ directory for all of it together.

Mount to the /var/lib/ or /var/ directory when installing the operating system, as they contain data from important OS directories.

Important: If the user directory is mounted as a separate partition, files from the user's home directory, for example, at the path /var/www/user/data/www/, will not be included in the backup.

Instructions

Mounting an additional disk in the /var/www/ directory:

1. Mount the additional disk to the server.

2. Create a GPT (recommended) or MBR type table on the new disk, and then create a partition, allocating all the free space.

3. Example with the "parted" utility:

parted /dev/sdc
(parted) mktable gpt
(parted) mkpart ext4 primary 0 -0M

4. Create a file system in the partition, e.g., "ext4":

mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdc1

5. Mount the new partition /dev/sdc1 to /var/www/:

mount /dev/sdc1 /var/www

6. Add an entry to /etc/fstab for automatic mounting:

lsblk -f | grep sdc1
├─sdc2              ext4             30ee2560-8175-47f0-833d-92d565b1c296

echo 'UUID=30ee2560-8175-47f0-833d-92d565b1c296  /var/www  ext4  rw  0  0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

After performing these steps, ensure the new entry is present in the /etc/fstab file.

After rebooting, use df -h to check that the new partition has been automatically mounted in /var/www/.