Adding mounted USB as Datacentre Storage 8.1.3

[deevienne]

I did manage to get this working on a 6.x build a while ago, but before I try an older version, hoping for some help adding external USB drive as Directory Storage on 8.1.3.

Created directory-
mkdir -p /mnt/usb3tb
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Created/formatted partition-
sgdisk -N 1 /dev/sdb
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
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Find UUID and edited fstab-
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

nano /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-uuid/fc5ab3c7-d21b-4173-866e-a05e0477df8e /mnt/usb3tb ext4 defaults 0
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Mounted and restarted systemctl
mount -a
systemctl daemon-reload
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Back to the GUI
SDB1 shows as mounted drive, all looks good

Go to Datacentre-->Storage-->add-->Directory-->
Name usbthreetb
Directory /mnt/usb3tb
Click OK=-->
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create storage failed: mkdir /mnt/usb3tb/dump: Read-only file system at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm line 1390. (500)
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I've tried editing folder permissions, chmod 777, I've tried creating directory and mounting to mnt/pve/usb3tb, same error.

 

[pos-sudo]

Hello,

I have managed to fix it while adding the USB drive as an ntfs-3g filesystem
On the node install ntfs3g with the following command: apt install ntfs-3g
Then I was managed to mount the drive with mount /dev/sdXX /mnt/mountpoint

Hope this helps