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Once you've bought your new storage slab it's pretty simple to setup.

Step 1: Mount the slab in the Stallion.

Step 2: Run fdisk -l to find out what the file system is for that slab.

$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/vda: 20 GiB, 21474836480 bytes, 41943040 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x19ed42f3

Device     Boot    Start      End  Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/vda1  *        2048 39843455 39841408  19G 83 Linux
/dev/vda2       39843456 41940607  2097152   1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris


Disk /dev/sda: 256 GiB, 274877906944 bytes, 536870912 sectors
Disk model: SLAB
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x716cfadf

Device     Boot Start       End   Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1        2048 536870911 536868864  256G 83 Linux

You should see your boot drive, which we don't have to touch. We want to find the slabs filesystem. For example, on my VPS the filesystem is /dev/sda. You can tell because it's 256 GiB

Step 3: Run

fdisk /dev/sda # or whatever filesystem your slab is