Wiki source code of Storage

Version 3.3 by Kevin Wiki on 2025/09/23 07:27

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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
		10
		11	# create dir to mount drive to
		12	mkdir -p /mnt/vmstorage
		13
		14	# add to fstab
		15	printf "\n/dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/vmstorage ext4 defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
		16
		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:
		22
		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
		29	```
		30
		31	## Moving images from LVM storage
		32
		33	Identify the lvm disk we are after. If is was LXC container with id 401, a disk might look like `/dev/mapper/pve-vm--401--disk--0`.
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