mount physical disks wirth existing data

[gurpal2000]

hi this has probably been covered already so appreciate if someone could post references.

problem:

i have lvm on my only disk with promox. Now i have 2 additional hds i want to add from a different machine.

disk 1 has 1 partition used to be mounted as /movies
disk 2 has 2 partitions used to be mounted as /music + /scratchspace

all are ext4 and im using the latest .32 kernel for proxmox.

i want to be able to physically add those to my proxmox box and want to be able to samba/locally mount them from all vms AND have it visible to the rest of the network.

so im thinking i dont want to delete anything firstly from the disks and i will probably need to use samba. question is how and can this be achieved?

thx

 

[l.mierzwa]

Exactly the same way as You always do such things on debian. Plug it in, mount it and setup samba.

 

[gurpal2000]

Exactly the same way as You always do such things on debian. Plug it in, mount it and setup samba.

ok thats a relief. my concern is if proxmox will start taking over and lvm it thus wiping. so what youre suggesting is that lvm and non-lvm can coexist?

 

[l.mierzwa]

ok thats a relief. my concern is if proxmox will start taking over and lvm it thus wiping. so what youre suggesting is that lvm and non-lvm can coexist?

why not? lvm does not wipe any disk plugged in.

 

[gurpal2000]

good, will give it a go