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Category OCI Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Terraform with OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)

In this post I will describe how to test terraform with OCI, for instance from your windows laptop. This is not intended for production server. Install OCI cli on your desktop or server On your laptop (or on your server)… Continue Reading →

OCI: increase the size of a block volume that is attached to a single instance (not shareable block volume)

WARNING: in the following example we will create an ext4 partition, but you must be informed that ext4 is a filesystem that cannot manage more than 2TiB (cannot manage more than 1TiB with 256 bytes inodes, or cannont manage more… Continue Reading →

OCI: attach a new block volume to a single host

In the OCI console, go to the block volumes menu and create a block volume. Choose in which compartment you want to create your block volume (same compartment as your host), and choose a custom size. Let the other settings… Continue Reading →

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: share a block storage between node with OCFS2

A regular filesystem is not intended to be mounted on more than one server at a time. And doing otherwise can lead to serious inconsistencies, damaging its logical structure. For instance, being unaware of each other’s activities, two servers may… Continue Reading →

OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) 2022, extends the size of your block storage and apply it to your partition on Linux

The following examples treat the case of a traditionnal partitionning. If you use Logical Volume Manager (LVM) it will be as easy than this but I’ll describe it in an another post. First, extend your block storage In OCI dashboard,… Continue Reading →

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