Adding an existing HDD to Proxmox

[moldytexas]

You said and can see that the drive is partitioned with NTFS, but you are trying to mount it as EXT4 - a different filesystem type.
Plug this into google "mount ntfs linux"
example: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/mount-ntfs-linux

or "proxmox mount ntfs":
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/m...t-at-start-up-and-sharing-it-with-vms.111207/

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Hey, thanks for the help, got the mounting thing sorted. But I can't seem to manage how to make this rive visible on a VM. I have a ubuntu instance running, but the drives don't show up there.

 

[Dunuin]

Hey, thanks for the help, got the mounting thing sorted. But I can't seem to manage how to make this rive visible on a VM. I have a ubuntu instance running, but the drives don't show up there.

Then you shouldn't mount it in PVE or you will corrupt the data on it.
Instead pass that disk through and mount it in your ubuntu: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)

 

[bbgeek17]

Hey, thanks for the help, got the mounting thing sorted. But I can't seem to manage how to make this rive visible on a VM. I have a ubuntu instance running, but the drives don't show up there.

I am guessing here, but it sounds like you want to pass-through the disk to the VM. That means you have to unmount it from the hypervisor and follow one of the many pass-through guides, and then mount it _inside_ the VM.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)

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[moldytexas]

Then you shouldn't mount it in PVE or you will corrupt the data on it.
Instead pass that disk through and mount it in your ubuntu: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)

@Dunuin & @bbgeek17 perfect, thank you an absolute crap-ton.
I just started exploring proxmox today, and mostly a newbie into all of this. Therefore the basic-level questions.

 

[WayLikeMark]

Hi! i have a HDD on which are four CT's can I use this method to get them up and running again?

 

[Dunuin]

Hi! i have a HDD on which are four CT's can I use this method to get them up and running again?

Do you have a backup of the /etc/pve/lxc folder of the PVE system disks or an old PBS/VZDump backup of these LXCs? Otherwise you only got the filesystem of the LXCs on that disk but not the configs that define your LXCs.

 

[krashoverride]

That is not a complete line.

I would do it this way:
1.) create that mountpoint first: mkdir /mnt/backupHDD
2.) find out the UUID or PARTUUID of the partition of your backup disk. In your case of sda1: blkid | grep sda1 | grep UUID=
3.) edit fstab: nano /etc/fstab
Add something like this there in case you found a PARTUUID:

PARTUUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx   /mnt/backupHDD   ext4   defaults   0   2

Save it with CTRL + X, Y.
4.) mount it by running mount -a
5.) Check that your backups are there: ls -la /mnt/backupHDD
6.) Add a new directory storage pointing to that mountpoint using the webUI at Datacenter -> Storage -> Add -> Directory or do it using the CLI like this: pvesm add dir backups --is_mountpoint 1 --path /mnt/backupHDD --content backup --shared 0. In case you have choosen the webUI and not the CLI, enable the "is_mountpoint" with pvesm set IdOfYourDirectoryStorage --is_mountpoint yes. In case your dump directory isn't in the root of that filesystem you might need to use pvesm set IdOfYourDirectoryStorage --is_mountpoint /mnt/backupHDD and point the path to the folder that is containing the dump dir.

Hi I did this and works until I restart and then on boot I get dependency failed on the mount points and have to remove the fstab line to boot normally. Is there something that I'm doing wrong?