Set Up ML Data Volume | Generated by AI
Quick answers:
Storage size: 200GB
Configuration: Automatically Format & Mount
Filesystem: Ext4
Name: ml-data
That’s it. Reasoning:
- Auto format & mount — saves you the
mkfs+fstabsteps, DigitalOcean does it for you - Ext4 — battle-tested, widely supported, no reason to use XFS unless you have massive files >16TB or specific throughput needs. Ext4 is fine for model checkpoints and token binaries
- 200GB — as calculated above, covers tokenized data + 3 checkpoints + headroom
After droplet boots, volume will be ready at /mnt/ml-data — just cd /mnt/ml-data and start working.