How to Add Extra Hard Disk to VirtualBox VM and set Automount

For one reason or another, you may reach a point where you need additional storage for your Virtual Machine. Today, i will show show a simple way to Add an extra hard disk to Virtual Machine running on VirtualBox and create a mount point for it. We'll also make the disk added auto-mount as the VM is booting up. I have a nice tutorial on How to get latest VirtualBox and Update it easily:

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1. Open VirtualBox GUI
2. Click on VM name, VM that you want to add disk to.
3. Go to its Settings
4. Click on Storage
5. Click on Controller: SATA controller

6. Click on Adds Hard disk icon
7. Click on Create new disk

8. Choose VDI ( You can choose any disk format you want to use)

9. Select Dynamically allocate ( You can use fixed as well)

9. Specify the name of the disk and size

9. Click on create button at the bottom

Debian/Ubuntu systems

apt-get install xfsprogs rsync 

RHEL/CentOS/Fedora

yum install xfsprogs rsync  

Arch Linux

pacman -S xfsprogs 

From my lsblk, the disk added is at /dev/sdb. Format the /dev/sdb devices as XFS:

mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb

mkdir -p /srv/node/sdb 

vi /etc/fstab

/dev/sdb /srv/node/sdb xfs noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier,logbufs=8 0 2 

Mount the device:

mount /srv/node/sdb 

Run lsblk again, you should see /dev/sdb mounted.


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