How to Add a Storage Drive to Proxmox 7 using the Web Interface

[@belovedbluestar]

I like how he yells the instructions Its very exciting

[@virtualizeeverything]

:) Glad you like it most people tell me to stop yelling I am just loud lol

[@litchadam]

@@virtualizeeverything dude never stop there have been like five times now when I needed a tutorial on exactly what your video was about and it was the most direct and to the point version of the tutorial out there. I absolutely love your style.

[@teostefan10]

Clear intructions and straight to the point without useless info added to artificially extend the video duration, thanks.

[@Bcarr122391]

This was an amazing demonstration on how to add a new disk; too many guides strictly follow the command line, or the instructions are not very clear. You spoke so clearly that the captions were also VERY accurate and made sense.

[@japanham5973]

This is exactly what I was looking for.....and could not get an answer on the Proxmox forum. So easy to do with your explanation and screen shots. Thanks very much! I subscribed!

[@danielb1588]

Same here

[@virtualizeeverything]

Glad we could help

[@warwickemanuel1088]

Thanks for a great video. There's so many things to like. Firstly the speed its not too fast. Secondly the video, I can actually see what you're doing and lastly you share some personal experiences, insights and whether intentional or not, some humor, turning it into something accessible, something relatable, enjoyable!

[@drewbarthlow4421]

Fantastic explanation, thank you! I’ve been pulling my hair out for weeks trying to understand Proxmox. This is the first thing I’ve found that makes sense.

[@virtualizeeverything]

I hope you find other videos here that help. Thank you for the comment

[@davidchau7399]

thank you for a clear tutorial on how to set up storage drive using the web interface!

[@virtualizeeverything]

Glad it was helpful! thanks for leaving a comment

[@jamesflores007]

Thank you so much for this! I am trying to learn Proxmox and had a new drive added to the PC. I was not sure if I needed to mount it to the pc first and then go through Proxmox but this solution you provided did everything in one go.

[@Mzansi74]

Short, easy and to the point! Thanks

[@virtualizeeverything]

You're welcome!

[@000Cypher]

Excellent, very helpful. Thank you 👍

[@virtualizeeverything]

Glad that we could help Thank you for the comment

[@xelu01]

Amazing! Thank you very much for this! Perfect guide to do this!

[@virtualizeeverything]

Glad it was helpful! and thank you for the comment

[@xelu01]

⁠you're very welcome!

[@Sugrax]

finally! what an easy task and yet so hard to find how to achieve it, thanks!

[@textervaid1]

Nice Tutorial. Thanks. just to add about ext4 limitation - That is not a limitation of ext4, but a limitation of the MSDOS partition table format you are using. You'll need to switch to GPT partition tables. Use gparted or parted to create a GPT partition table on your disk. This will allow you to create partitions bigger than 2 TB

[@virtualizeeverything]

Thanks for sharing! Keep on teaching and learning.

[@ee-rg4op]

Merci enfin un tutoriel compréhensible pour le commun des mortels

[@belceboso]

Literally it is what I needed, thank you so much.

[@virtualizeeverything]

You're so welcome! thank you for the comment

[@JAFOpty]

ext4 has a 2TB limit?

[@virtualizeeverything]

I mixed up ext3 and ext4 ext3 had a max file size of 2TB. ext4 has a max file size of 16TB and a max drive size of 1EiB. I am sorry this is what happens when you work off your memory from when you where in school and don't fact check your self.

[@gabood]

why is this information so hard to find lol, thanks for making this

[@virtualizeeverything]

This is a big part of why i started my channel

[@FelipeBudinich]

Thanks for the very concise explanation.

[@danielb1588]

Exactly the info I was looking for. Thanks

[@virtualizeeverything]

Your welcome thank you for the comment

[@EyeDentify]

Brilliant Tutorial as always. 👍

[@PeteyCarcass]

Thanks! To the point and very clearly explained, super helpful!

[@BeYourselfMan]

Thank you so much matey!!!! Perfect tutorial. You just earned a sub

[@liresto]

TY... this was soooo informative and easy to follow!

[@virtualizeeverything]

Ty for the comment

[@yingderekliao1981]

love your energy.

[@virtualizeeverything]

Thank you, And thank you for the comment

[@bambam0099]

To the point easy! Thank you!

[@virtualizeeverything]

You're welcome!

[@adamturtle69]

thank you for this instructions, heelps me a lot.

[@gp2254]

Great content! Ques for ya, If I was to install 2 new 4TB Internal SAS drive to a dell R720 server does this method also work? Also what would be the difference if I created a new Virtual Disk through the Dell Raid configurator and made a Raid 0 for example?

[@YannMetalhead]

Good tutorial, thanks!

[@CodySmiley]

Thanks, a lot info in less than 10min!

[@zaidhussain5206]

Thank you for the tutorial , it is very informative to me.

[@m.jamilrahman4971]

Great Video bro thank for helping us 😘

[@LuigiPuzo]

Thank you for your video!

[@virtualizeeverything]

You are welcome!

[@905jay]

You explained this perfectly thank you

[@crc-error-7968]

Thank you!

[@stephanej30]

thanks for the video, this is what i was looking for.

[@cafugo_yt]

Love u

[@BeYourselfMan]

You're a legend!!!!

[@MarcMcRae]

Sorry to point this out and clarify, cos you said ext4 has a 2TB limitation..uhmmm, no! What did you mean there?

[@SteveSwags]

Great, easy to follow video!

[@KoljaMineralka]

in my case under disrectory dropdown is emtpy.. even though I have nvme 1tb and ssd 1 tb under disks, but ssd says is not mounted... what should I do?

[@KrisHoobergs]

I liked the video, but I'm missing the part on how you can add the storage/disk (directory) to a node, like for example a container with nextcloud. I'm also missing if you can create multiple partitions on one physical disk (directory) so you can use your drive for multiple nodes

[@StanyCarteny]

Great Work!

[@TeDeKaay]

Thanks for sharing

[@virtualizeeverything]

thank you for commenting

[@LungCancer420]

good stuff

[@michaelmueller5211]

thank you

[@virtualizeeverything]

You're welcome

[@thatsmoovekat]

Very informative...thanks!

[@virtualizeeverything]

You're welcome!

[@talksickgamer]

@@virtualizeeverything how to do the same with drive having data that we don't want to wipe? That drive doesn't show up in create directory dialogue

[@virtualizeeverything]

@@talksickgamer please watch kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGbaoIl8iNJ4fac

[@themittal]

Thanks very helpful. Any idea on how to pass this to Plex for storing movies and access it using windows to add new files?😊

[@virtualizeeverything]

I don't use Plex but I would believe that you can add it to the vm as a drive or setup a SMB server and bring them in that way

[@benjamink7311]

How to upgrade a drive from lower capacity to higher capacity when we use clone Zilla as it's not expanding file system

[@javieralejandroolivatrampe6923]

Exelente video !!! Gracias!!!!!!

[@robert-cope]

Thanks for video. I would like to install Windows 11 on drive sdb. I added sdb as per your instructions. I would like WIndows 11 to use the entire disk, but not sure how to proceed. When I click Create VM, under disks I do not see how to allocate the entire sdb drive.

[@Amsteffydam]

Is there a way I can move the storage drive from one node to another?

[@Meerkat000]

😂 I had to stop 30 seconds in. Bruh, you’re not actually serious with this voice cadence?!

[@markoviczeljko9905]

Yeah, thanks for that. But thats formatted drive and ready to attach. What about adding raw/new drive? I did not found way to format it and mount it via GUI, only via CLI. Thank you for nice, detail and clean explanation thou.

[@virtualizeeverything]

I don't know if i have ever tried with a new drive from a box. I don't often get new things. I cant see how this video would not work though you are formatting the drive. Maybe one day if i buy a new drive I will try it and see.

[@wayland7150]

I have added an NVMe drive with Windows 10 installed to a Proxmox VM as it's main storage device. It did boot into windows but then had a problem and tried to fix Windows. I gave up doing it that way. It is possible to store each VM on it's own bootable physical drive. The value of doing this is questionable though.

[@warwickemanuel1088]

I installed an internal nvme drive and it came up on the GUI and I did as this video demonstrates. I also did it using the CLI to follow through the steps but as far as I know the GUI had sorted the drive first

[@XRPSAINT]

But, how do you add an external usb drive that proXmoX does not see?

[@adiands850]

Thanks for the video. Unfortunately the method doesn't work for me. When I try and wipe the disk, I get the error: "disk/partition '/dev/nvme0n1p3' has a holder (500)"

[@virtualizeeverything]

have you tried restarting the system?

[@adiands850]

@@virtualizeeverythingMany times. It seems it's a common problem. I'll see if I can find a workaround.

[@virtualizeeverything]

did you ever find a workaround?

[@0views372]

I have jellyfin in a container. How could I point it to see a mounted drive?

[@aqueell9970]

Just did this the other day. Had an external (NTFS format) USB HDD attached with my media and didn't want to lose it. Spent forever going through pages of reading and countless KZbin videos. Finally had success after following the steps from this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5KpfXiarcushc0 Everything is up and running and I can even WinSCP into that drive to move files to/from it.

[@XesarDavid]

why is not possible to take snapshots in THIS kind of directory storage?

[@virtualizeeverything]

I don't thick that NTFS, FAT, EXT formats support snapshots

[@ProgrammingWIthRiley]

Yes!

[@jspiv8565]

❤

[@virtualizeeverything]

Thank you

[@wahidshafique9942]

what if I do not want to wipe it

[@virtualizeeverything]

you need to use the command line

[@andrewandme632]

@@virtualizeeverything Would be great if you can teach this, how to add an existing ZFS pool and mount point for VMs & CTs to access thanks

[@variancewithin]

dude what? quoting the wiki, ext4 can do a hell of a lot more than 2TB lol "The ext4 filesystem can support volumes with sizes in theory up to 64 zebibyte (ZiB) and single files with sizes up to 16 tebibytes (TiB) with the standard 4 KiB block size, and volumes with sizes up to 1 yobibyte (YiB) with 64 KiB clusters, though a limitation in the extent format makes 1 exbibyte (EiB) the practical limit.[13] The maximum file, directory, and filesystem size limits grow at least proportionately with the filesystem block size up to the maximum 64 KiB block size available on ARM and PowerPC/Power ISA CPUs." if anything, xfs is the worse standard lol: "XFS is a 64-bit file system[23] and supports a maximum file system size of 8 exbibytes minus one byte (263 − 1 bytes), but limitations imposed by the host operating system can decrease this limit. 32-bit Linux systems limit the size of both the file and file system to 16 tebibytes."

[@warwolf333]

1 - the tone of voice doesn’t really help to focus. 2 - ext4 doesn’t have a 2Tb limit. With the right block size, you can go to 1 exabyte... More than enough i think...

[@crocrash320]

Great video, besides the fact you speak to your audience like they're a 6-year-old child.

[@flabbywingtowntits7510]

Truly felt special with this guy talking to me like I'm retarded

[@inLoopie]

i cant hear you

[@sentinelace]

fix your computer then. he sounds perfect

[@SirPhones]

holy shit, this videos tilted the shit out of me

[@bob84409]

ext4 file system supports volumes up to 7.556e+10 TB, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4

[@AgusSaputraSijabatPro]

Thank you for your video! It's so easy to understand.

[@AFiB1999]

Thank you!