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Find the USB Drive

Plug USB drive into Proxmox host machine.

lsblk
lsusb
fdisk -l
df -h
mkdir /mnt/usb-drive 
/etc/fstab
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/*

Format USB drive EXT4

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sde1
blkid -o list

Make directory to mount usb drive

mkdir /mnt/usb-drive
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb-drive

Setup Permanent Mount

In order to mount your USB drive permanently after reboot add a line into your /etc/fstab config file. If drives are added or removed from the Proxmox the device may change. For this reason the partion UUID will need to be used instead of the block device name.

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 30 10:50 /dev/disk/by-uuid/169C06729C064CA5 -> ../../zd128p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep  7 08:23 /dev/disk/by-uuid/1C9696109695EA92 -> ../../sde1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 30 10:50 /dev/disk/by-uuid/4331501758443482231 -> ../../sdd2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jun 30 10:50 /dev/disk/by-uuid/46FF7800EE8FFB6D -> ../../zd96p1

Above will give you the uuid. Open the fstab for editing

nano /etc/fstab

Add this line to your fstab using the correct UUI

/dev/disk/by-uuid/1C9696109695EA92    /mnt/usb-drive         ext4   defaults   0

Mount drive

mount -a