Extra backup disk on Azure virtual server

Find the disk via the following command:

lsblk -o NAME,HCTL,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT | grep -i "sd"

This will give the following output:

root@itea-worker-vm:/dev# lsblk -o NAME,HCTL,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT | grep -i "sd"
sda     0:0:0:0      30G
├─sda1             29.9G /
├─sda14               3M
└─sda15             124M /boot/efi
sdb     0:0:0:1      16G
└─sdb1               16G /mnt
sdc     1:0:0:0       1T
root@itea-worker-vm:/dev#

apt-get install xfsprogs

sudo parted /dev/sdc --script mklabel gpt mkpart xfspart xfs 0% 100%
sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sdc1
sudo partprobe /dev/sdc1

sudo mkdir /mnt/backupdisk
sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/backupdisk



sudo blkid

/dev/sdb1: UUID="58de89a5-5a90-421d-ba9a-45f446bd57cd" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="xfs" PARTLABEL="xfspart" PARTUUID="938dccb4-7a46-4e33-8aa5-6162a1fa2006"
/dev/sda1: UUID="977c2ac7-7427-4dbc-9f71-cf25276c32ef" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="74ae04ed-06de-6848-a16f-d8d9017b6473"
/dev/sda14: PARTUUID="8246aeb7-3349-0f45-8c5b-5538fb139ebf"
/dev/sda15: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="D038-0F4E" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="624b5d15-aad0-5647-a2a7-5b3a9c2abd48"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="2c05eced-57df-48bd-96dd-31964b1517f8" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="75a22555-01"

sudo nano /etc/fstab

UUID=58de89a5-5a90-421d-ba9a-45f446bd57cd /mnt/backupdisk   xfs   defaults,nofail   1   2

Last modified: 05 April 2025