How to change the mount point of a disk drive

Introduction

When you add a new drive to your server, some service providers will automatically mount the new drive to your server at the location /mnt/name-of-drive. This guide is intended to demonstrate how to change the mount-point of your drive to another location.

Please note that the cPanel staff can't perform these tasks for you as these are actions that our software does not manage. The server owner or System Administrator must perform this.

Procedure

1. Use the df command to get the device name of the new drive.

   [root@server ~]# df
   Filesystem     1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
   devtmpfs        16060772         0  16060772   0% /dev
   tmpfs           16085700         0  16085700   0% /dev/shm
   /dev/sda1       41931756   6835028  35096728   17% /
   /dev/loop0       3997376     60632   3727032   2% /tmp
   /dev/sdb       418772567     12345 418772567   1% /mnt/VOLUME_123456

   Please note that in the above example, the drive /dev/sdb is the new drive that was added to the server and is currently mounted at /mnt/VOLUME_123456.
2. Unmount the new drive from the server.

   umount /mnt/VOLUME_123456

3. Create the new mount-point directory.

   mkdir -v /$mountpoint

   Please note "$mountpoint" must be replaced with the new mount point.
4. Mount the drive on the new mount point.

   mount /dev/sdb /$mountpoint

   Please note that you must update the mount point in the /etc/fstab file to ensure the drive is mounted on the new mount point after each reboot at this new location.

Additional resources

How to add storage devices to /etc/fstab