Transfer Data from external USB drive to VM disk

[ApolloMagnus]

Hi guys, I am very new to data structures and to linux, so apologies for any confusing details.
I am running proxmox for several things, but mostly for a jellyfin server for me and my roommates.
I just got a 2 TB ssd for jellyfin, in order to hold lots of footage we record.
I have everything setup and working, except I have about 800 GB I need to transfer to an openmediavault vm disk, because we already have a lot of videos and files saved. How would I go about transfering the data to the vm disk? I can't find anything on how to do this. do I need to transfer it before I add it to the omv VM?
cp doesnt seem to be working for this, as i cant seem to access the disk, with the absolute path from OMV

 

[Folke]

Hi,

you could use USB passthrough to relay the usb device to the vm directly.
With the drive plugged into the host, in the ProxmoxVE UI, go to your node > Hardware > Add > USB Device.

After that it should show up in your vm and you should be able to mount it and copy the files.

 

[ApolloMagnus]

Hi,

you could use USB passthrough to relay the usb device to the vm directly.
With the drive plugged into the host, in the ProxmoxVE UI, go to your node > Hardware > Add > USB Device.

After that it should show up in your vm and you should be able to mount it and copy the files.

I still seem unable to access the disc even within my vm. for reference im using OpenMediaVault with a mounted disc setup as a nfs and smb share. and from terminal i simply cant access the already existing disc

 

[Folke]

Huh, that's weird. Works on my machine like a charm.
Anyways, if the drive is detected on your computer, you could always use something like
sshfs, sftp, rsync, etc. to transfer the data over the network. That's probably a fair bit slower, but
shouldn't take longer than a few hours if you are on a local network with the server.

 

[vampyren]

For me it shows in Disk manager but i can't use it!
I'm afraid if i delete it wont work or cause other issues in linux (proxmox)!