NFS server install

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tonycav

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Hi, some advice.
I need to share an external USB drive via NFS that's only occasionally powered on.
Should I uninstall the NFS server via Proxmox or perhaps use an LXC or a separate VM?
Thanks so much for your time.
 
It's better to have container/vm for any service and leave proxmox doing only proxmox things.
 
Sharing it from where and to who/what? Do you even need NFS or do you want to just pass it through? I think we need more info.
 
Thanks for the replies, here are more details.
The external USB hard drive is formatted in ext4 and must be shared to view it on an LG TV with Kodi.
I've read that some users have had issues with SMB sharing and resolved them with NFS.
Thanks
 
You could do an LXC, but in your case I would spin up a small VM and install Openmediavault. Managing permissions, configuring shares (either SMB or NFS), etc. are all very easy on OMV, and you don't really need the complexity of something like TrueNAS scale. Plus OMV works pretty well with USB drives. Just don't try to configure USB drives in a raid array. Its not designed for it, and has the postential to become unstable if you do that.
 
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