Reassign Owner

[theb2b]

I have a rather large disk attached to a defunct Ubuntu server. The defunct Ubuntu I brought over from a vmware server just for this second disk. It is was a file server and the second disk only hosted the files in question so I like to attach this second disk to another Ubuntu server I spun up on my Proxmox machine. The storage disk it is on is formatted is an ext4 and is attached as a directory. The format of the virtual disk is gcow2, so again, my question can I just use the reassign owner option?

If the information I have provided is incorrect, wrong or incomplete let me know as I am new to the OS. The verbiage is all new to me and I am learning as I go.

Thanks.

 

[bbgeek17]

Hi @theb2b ,

What is the output of :
pvesm status

Does the output contain a storage pool that corresponds to your location?
If it does, what is the output of: pvesm list [storage_pool_name]
If it does not, where exactly is the file located? What is the name of the file?
What VM do you want to attach it to?

The file should be named vm-[vmid]-disk-[index_counter].qcow2
It should be located in "/path/images/[vmid]/" either in /var/lib/vz (which corresponds to local storage pool) or in the custom directory pool that is backed by your storage disk.
The VMID should match the ID of your target VM, the index-counter should be next after currently used ones.

Once you properly placed the file, you can run : qm disk rescan --vmid [vmid]
It will bring in the disk as : unusedX
You can then use GUI to assign the disk to controller, whether SCSI or IDE.

Good luck

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[theb2b]

The output of pvesm status does contain the storage pool that corresponds to my location


The output of pvesm list storage-4t and yes it contains or holds the file in question.


The disk I want to attach this to is


Going to need a bit more help on the following
It should be located in "/path/images/[vmid]/" either in /var/lib/vz (which corresponds to local storage pool) or in the custom directory pool that is backed by your storage disk.
The VMID should match the ID of your target VM, the index-counter should be next after currently used ones.
As I said new to this OS but not new to linux.

 

[bbgeek17]

So you named the disk using VM ID 101 but want to assign it to VM 103?
Does VM 101 actually exist? If it does, then use "qm disk move" command to reassign the disk. (man qm)
If it does not exist , find where the new disk is stored on your storage-4t pool and move/rename it manually.

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[theb2b]

Yes VM 101 actually exists and I was able to reassign the disk, thanks for your help.

Out of town so response was/is a bit delayed.