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I added Volumes Block Storage , I cant figure out how to move/access my uploads onto it for Woocommerce/WordPress

Im running out of Disk Space and trying to clean up old picture files. Id like to use the additional storage and move all of my upload files to it, to access my product/website images from that Storage rather than my main droplet I have 25-35gb of photo files in my /wp-content/uploads that would alleviate the majority of my disk space currently

I tried to follow tutorial previously and was unable to successfully so I deleted volume storage block I had added. When I tried I thought that I could just attach the volume to my droplet and it would auto access the storage capacity in addition to my droplets (whoops)

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           794M  1.1M  793M   1% /run
/dev/vda1        49G   39G   11G  79% /
tmpfs           3.9G  640K  3.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
/dev/vda15      105M  6.1M   99M   6% /boot/efi
/dev/sda         50G  390M   50G   1% /mnt/volume_sfo2_01
tmpfs           794M  4.0K  794M   1% /run/user/0

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Bobby Iliev
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June 5, 2024

Hey!

Just updating this question here in case that anyone comes across it in the future, as we discussed here, your fstab was correct, but when you add a volume systemd creates an auto mount file for the original mount point.

So to fix this, you had to delete that file, and your fstab/mount point worked as intended.

- Bobby

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