LVM Virtual Disks accessibility

[pm2hard]

Main: If I unplug a SSD from my proxmox server and put it into another system - would the VM disk on the SSD be accessible from other systems - windows or anything?

I want to be able to remove the drive and plug it into something else to access the files, preferably windows. The drive filesystem is currently ext 4, but I'm all ears on recommendations.

For further context: I am wanting to make an Immich server and I've had a miserable time mounting my SMB shares. Ideally that would satisfy my needs, but I can't figure that out. So I am looking to just use a LVM on an SSD and find a way to access it when things go wrong.


I'm just a home user.

 

[bbgeek17]

Hi @pm2hard , welcome to the forum

Your questions have only tangential relationship to the topic of this forum : Proxmox VE: Installation and configuration.

There are many discussions about your particular queries. You can retrieve them by searching for:
"can windows access lvm" : https://askubuntu.com/questions/1140272/how-can-i-access-my-lvm-partition-from-windows-10
"can windows read ext4" : https://superuser.com/questions/37512/how-to-read-ext4-partitions-on-windows

There could be many complications along the way, so make sure you have a backup. A wrong step can lead to data loss.

Good luck

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