Add a new disk on a proxmox VM

• May 04, 2023
• 34 words
• 1 min

1. Add disk to the VM via proxmox web interface
2. Create partitions table of type GPT

parted /dev/sdb mklabel gpt

3. Create the first partition

parted -a opt /dev/sdb mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%

4. Create the filesystem

mkfs.ext4 -L storage-label /dev/sdb1

5. Create the mountpoint

mkdir /mnt/storage

6. Modify /etc/fstab

echo "LABEL=storage-label /mnt/storage ext4 defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 2" >> /etc/fstab