I have created a VPS at Gandi.net. It has a volume (/dev/xvda) with OS Ubuntu 22.04 on it, and a Laravel application installed in a vhost directory (~/myvhost). Laravel apps have a default storage directory for uploaded files at storage/app/public.
I would like (but I don't if that's a good idea) to decouple the Laravel application files from the storage/app/public files. So I'm wondering if I could create a new volume (/dev/xvdb), without OS, attach it to my server, and mounting it on the ~/myvhost/storage/app/public.
I did that. But when I copy files into the storage/app/public, the disk usage is taking place into the /dev/xvda volume, not in the xvdb volume. By the way the xvdb volume is not in the list when I run df -h :
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 390M 1.2M 389M 1% /run
/dev/xvda1 49G 23G 26G 47% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
/dev/xvda15 105M 6.1M 99M 6% /boot/efi
tmpfs 390M 4.0K 390M 1% /run/user/1001
But I can see the xvdb when running fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/xvda: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 32768 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 32768 bytes / 32768 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 089874F4-B779-47D7-93FE-9363737526EB
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/xvda1 227328 104857566 104630239 49.9G Linux filesystem
/dev/xvda14 2048 10239 8192 4M BIOS boot
/dev/xvda15 10240 227327 217088 106M EFI System
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
Disk /dev/xvdb: 80 GiB, 85899345920 bytes, 167772160 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 32768 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 32768 bytes / 32768 bytes
I am a real newbie in the linux world so I am surely messing up with concepts and commands. Please help :)
