# format and mount volume according to Digital Ocean instructions
# I followed the instructions found by clicking the "config instructions" link on the volume
#
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0DO_Volume_volume-fra1-01
$ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/volume-fra1-01;
$ sudo mount -o discard,defaults /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0DO_Volume_volume-fra1-01 /mnt/volume-fra1-01;
$ echo /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0DO_Volume_volume-fra1-01 /mnt/volume-fra1-01 ext4 defaults,nofail,discard 0 0 | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
$ sudo reboot
$ ls /mnt/
#
# the volume existed at this point
#
$ ls /mnt/volume-fra1-01/
$ cd /mnt
$ cd volume-fra1-01/
$ sudo mkdir var
$ cd var/
$ sudo mkdir lib
$ cd lib/
$ sudo mkdir elasticsearch
$ cd elasticsearch/
$ cd
$ sudo chown -R elasticsearch:elasticsearch /mnt/volume-fra1-01/var/lib/elasticsearch/