proxmox Mount usb external drive to Proxmox

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If you are wanting to mount a usb external drive to backup your vm's do the following.

1. Plug your usb external drive into your proxmox server.

 

2. Create a mount location directory.

mkdir /mnt/usb-drive

 

3. check to see if your usb drive is detected.

lsblk

 

 

4. mount the drive

mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb-drive/

mount /dev/sdb /mnt/wd-external/

 

5. Verify the drive has been mounted.

df -h

 

6. Go to datacenter in Proxmox and create new storage.