Wiki source code of Storage
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| 1 | Adding external high speed VM storage to proxmox. Find the new drive and erase it and then format using parted: | ||
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| 3 | ```bash | ||
| 4 | # format drive and create partition | ||
| 5 | parted /dev/nvme0n1 mklabel gpt | ||
| 6 | parted /dev/nvme0n1 mkpart primary ext4 0% 100% | ||
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| 8 | # create a ext4 filesystem | ||
| 9 | mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p1 | ||
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| 11 | # create dir to mount drive to | ||
| 12 | mkdir -p /mnt/vmstorage | ||
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| 14 | # add to fstab | ||
| 15 | printf "\n/dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/vmstorage ext4 defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab | ||
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| 17 | # mount drives defined in fstab | ||
| 18 | mount | ||
| 19 | ``` | ||
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| 21 | Add the new device in proxmox UI or in `/etc/pve/storage.cfg` to: | ||
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| 23 | ```cfg | ||
| 24 | dir: nvme | ||
| 25 | path /mnt/vmstorage | ||
| 26 | content backup,rootdir,snippets,iso,vztmpl,images | ||
| 27 | prune-backups keep-all=1 | ||
| 28 | shared 0 | ||
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| 30 | ``` | ||
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