How to add existing media disk?

[js-monroe]

Hi, I'm running a Jellyfin container and have an internal 6TB HDD in EXT4 (contains videos, music, etc that I don't want to wipe) that is one disk among several in my proxmox server. I've since created a mount point and added it to fstab. The disk is present on the system, I can browse the contents in the console...but what now?

I don't see how or where I can add it so Jellyfin will actually see it. What are my options, or what do I need to do?

Seems like Proxmox just wants to wipe it before I can add it to any sort of volume group or pool. Surely there has to be a way to use an existing media disk, no? Thank You.

 

[fschauer]

You can pass the mount point from the host to the container with:

pct set <containerID> -mp0 mp=/mnt/sdb1,/mnt/sdb1

Your files will show up in the container at /mnt/sdb1 but they will probably all be owned by "nobody".
If that is not acceptable, set up an idmap as described here:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Unprivileged_LXC_containers

 

[nasach]

Hi, I'm running a Jellyfin container and have an internal 6TB HDD in EXT4 (contains videos, music, etc that I don't want to wipe) that is one disk among several in my proxmox server. I've since created a mount point and added it to fstab. The disk is present on the system, I can browse the contents in the console...but what now?

I don't see how or where I can add it so Jellyfin will actually see it. What are my options, or what do I need to do?

Seems like Proxmox just wants to wipe it before I can add it to any sort of volume group or pool. Surely there has to be a way to use an existing media disk, no? Thank You.

Whilst working on my own issue I had seen your post. I managed to figure out something similar for a fileserver container and my plex container. Check out the thread to see if it helps - https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/migration-of-raid1-zfs-to-proxmox.132154/#post-581358

 

[js-monroe]

You can pass the mount point from the host to the container with:

pct set <containerID> -mp0 mp=/mnt/sdb1,/mnt/sdb1

Your files will show up in the container at /mnt/sdb1 but they will probably all be owned by "nobody".
If that is not acceptable, set up an idmap as described here:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Unprivileged_LXC_containers

Thank You Sir! This worked for me.