Adding disks to VPC

How to attach discs to a cloud VPC

In web UI:

  • Create disk
  • Add disk to instance

Then format discs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/add-persistent-disk)

sudo mkfs.ext4 -m 0 -F -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0,discard /dev/sdb   
sudo blkid /dev/sdb

add entry to /etc/fstab