i've auto added a 100gb volume to my droplet for storage, how do i save and retrieve files from the volume, what path would i use?

Hey friend,

Great question! I don’t really use larvel myself but this should be a generic Linux question regardless of that, but just know that this is where I come from when answering it.

Let’s say your Laravel project is in /home/username, and your volume is /dev/sda. I would do this:

mv /home/username /home/username.bak
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda #(this erases the volume, don't do this if you have data on it right now)
mkdir /home/username
mount /dev/sda /home/username
mv /home/username.bak/* /home/username

And then to top it off, if it’s /home/username because you’re working on the project while under the user “username” and not root, then:

chown -R username. /home/username

Then just keep working on your project in /home/username like nothing happened, run a “df -h” to see that /home/username now has the amount of storage of the block storage volume. To make the mount persist on reboot, do this:

echo "/dev/sda /home/username ext4 defaults 1 2" >> /etc/fstab

Remember that my example has the volume as /dev/sda. You can see the volumes on your droplet by running “fdisk -l” and you can generally tell them apart by their stated size.

Hope this helps :)

Jarland