Setup data directory in a single HD/SSD environment

[Ben_M]

Hi,

I am currently switching to a new personal home server, using Proxmox VE, v7, with several VMs/CTs in the future.
Hardware: Barebone, 16GB RAM, and one 2TB SSD (and no other drives).

This is how the disk looks like:

root@pve:~# lsblk
NAME                         MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda                            8:0    0  1.8T  0 disk
├─sda1                         8:1    0 1007K  0 part
├─sda2                         8:2    0  512M  0 part /boot/efi
└─sda3                         8:3    0  1.8T  0 part
  ├─pve-swap                 253:0    0    8G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
  ├─pve-root                 253:1    0   96G  0 lvm  /
  ├─pve-data_tmeta           253:2    0 15.8G  0 lvm
  │ └─pve-data-tpool         253:4    0  1.7T  0 lvm
  │   ├─pve-data             253:5    0  1.7T  1 lvm
  │   ├─pve-vm--110--disk--0 253:6    0   10G  0 lvm
  │   ├─pve-vm--120--disk--0 253:7    0   10G  0 lvm
  │   └─pve-vm--111--disk--0 253:8    0    4G  0 lvm
  └─pve-data_tdata           253:3    0  1.7T  0 lvm
    └─pve-data-tpool         253:4    0  1.7T  0 lvm
      ├─pve-data             253:5    0  1.7T  1 lvm
      ├─pve-vm--110--disk--0 253:6    0   10G  0 lvm
      ├─pve-vm--120--disk--0 253:7    0   10G  0 lvm
      └─pve-vm--111--disk--0 253:8    0    4G  0 lvm

Question:
What is the best practice to allocate ~ 1.5 TB of the SSD for data (i.e. recorded TV streams, pictures, videos, documents, backup files, etc.) and provide r/w access for Proxmox VMs/CTs?

I thought about manually adding a folder in Proxmox's root dir and share it accordingly by adding user(s) with according rights.
Alternatively, I thought about creating a second partition for this purpose.
Or I could add a new Debian Container, assign 512kB RAM and 1.5TB HD space for the only purpose to share data from a folder from there.
Or is this something that can be done through Proxmox's UI?

Thanks for any help and ideas. I hope my problem description is clear, please let me know if not or if any questions, thanks.

Ben