Proxmox, harddrives and samba

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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I converted my main linux machine to a Proxmox VE machine. So far everything is going swimmingly (including the customary trip to the BIOS to enable SVM (Secure Virtual Machine or what have you)). I have a 3 TB hard drive with DVD rips, bluray rips and other stuff on it. It has an ext4 filesystem on it.

What I want to do is: plug the hard drive in the proxmox box and create a samba share for my windows machines.

Since I do not have a spare SATA drive on which I could test this my question is:

What does Proxmox do if you give it a formatted hard drive? Any chance on an automatic reformat or somehing along those lines?

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Nope. Proxmox will not do anything automatically with a new hard drive. There are a number of different ways that you can use hard drives in Proxmox, so doing something automatically would be counter productive to many scenarios.

Plug your drive in, give it a mount point, put an entry in /etc/fstab, mount -a, call it a day.

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That's good to know. I might try it this evening.