adding drive with existing data

[freakystreak]

I want to add a drive with some existing data stored on it to my proxmix server to use with an OpenMediaVault VM. Is this possible?

 

[Weehooey-HSS]

Would this be a permanent solution?

You could pass the drive through over USB or a spare drive controller if not.

I am unaware of any "Clean" way of doing this permanently.
But if you need the data copied, the passthrough is an option.

Thanks!

 

[freakystreak]

Would this be a permanent solution?

You could pass the drive through over USB or a spare drive controller if not.

I am unaware of any "Clean" way of doing this permanently.
But if you need the data copied, the passthrough is an option.

Thanks

Drive has already been formatted to EXT4 so can I not just mount the drive and share it with OMV? Absolute newbie with Proxmox.

 

[leesteken]

Drive has already been formatted to EXT4 so can I not just mount the drive and share it with OMV? Absolute newbie with Proxmox.

With a VM you could try disk passthrough: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM) (lots of threads about this on the forum).