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Add remote shares to your VM's

We need stuff from our NAS and/or other storage devices to run our services. We can mount #nfs #smb #cifs by #fstab #sshfs #mount.

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Add remote shares to your VM's
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We need stuff from our NAS and/or other storage devices to run our services

See also this post, How to add remote shares or disks to Proxmox.

Fixed settings

Use dedicated entries in the /etc/fstab for stuff that are permanent. NFS is the fastest protocol.

# Make a fixed entry to fstab
10.10.10.10:/path/to/export /local_mountpoint nfs <options> 0 0

# Add some options
nas.mynet.local:/music /mnt/home/nalle/music nfs rw,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14 0 0
mount /mnt/home/nalle/music

SSHFS

We can easily add files for testing by ssh, using the SFTP portion of SSH. This method is usable on Linux, Mac and Windows. Just install it

# To add a remote share
#sudo sshfs -o idmap=user [email protected]:/mnt/Data/Music ./music
sudo sshfs -o allow_other [email protected]:/mnt/Data/Music ./music

# To remove a mounted Directory
sudo fusermount -u ./music

Mount

Make sure you have nfs-utils installed.

# To mount a remote Directory (here a NFS share)
sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.1.40:/mnt/Data/Music ~/NFSmount

# To remove a mounted Directory
sudo umount ~/NFSmount

Mounting in Docker-Compose

In your containers docker-compose.yml file you can add volumes and point to your NAS or storage device.

...
services:
  myservice:
  ...
      volumes:
      - type: volume
        source: my_music
        target: /nfs
        volume:
          nocopy: true
volumes:
  my_music:
    driver_opts:
      type: "nfs"
      o: "addr=10.10.10.10,nolock,soft,rw"
      device: ":/mnt/data/music"

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