Adding a physical disc from an other Proxmox system

DaGerba

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Feb 5, 2015
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Hello,

I have got a physical disc from an other Proxmox system with backups of VMs on it, that I want to restore into my system. It was set up as directory with ext4 filesystem on the other PVE.
When I install the disc in my ProxmoxVE machine, it is shown in the node - discs section, but I con not just add is as directory, because it allready has a GPT partition table and is not avaliable in the create directory menue.
When I try to add it in the datacenter - storage section I need to define ID and mountpoint, but it has not been mounted. So my first idea was adding it to /etc/fstab, but there are none of the other disks shown. It only contains one entry with proc. That is the point where I don't know how to go on.

How do I get this disk mounted in my PVE system automatic every time at boot? I guess just adding a normal fstab entry would work but is not best practice.
 
Hello.
"mkdir /mnt/backup_vms"
In /etc/fstab try to add "/dev/New_disk /mnt/backup_vms ext4 defaults 1 1"
"mount -a"
and try to find in GUI.
Yes, this works, as expected. Then I can add it in the datacenter - storage section and restore the backups.
But this is not the way the disk would be mounted by the PVE when adding an empty disk in the frontend.