LXC Bind Mounts: Difference between revisions
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== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
Bind mounts allow you to access a directory, or a storage volume from your Proxmox VE host inside a container. There can be many purposes: | Bind mounts allow you to access a directory, or a storage volume from your Proxmox VE host inside a container. There can be many purposes: | ||
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Note that the device you want to use has to be already accessible in the pve host. For security reasons, it is not possible to mount a device of NFS share directly in the guest. | Note that the device you want to use has to be already accessible in the pve host. For security reasons, it is not possible to mount a device of NFS share directly in the guest. | ||
Suppose you want to access the following directories in your LXC container with ID100: | Suppose you want to access the following directories in your LXC container with ID100: | ||
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* This works as of 2015-09-13 using lxc-pve: 1.1.3-1 . | * This works as of 2015-09-13 using lxc-pve: 1.1.3-1 . | ||
:add this to the .conf file in /etc/pve/lxc | :add this to the .conf file in /etc/pve/lxc | ||
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'''Note:''' This adds an entry to "/var/lib/lxc/<containerID>/config" in the correct format. Do not edit "/var/lib/lxc/<containerID>/config" manually as that is overwritten on container boot. | '''Note:''' This adds an entry to "/var/lib/lxc/<containerID>/config" in the correct format. Do not edit "/var/lib/lxc/<containerID>/config" manually as that is overwritten on container boot. | ||
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Note that bind mounts are not going to be included when you backup the container by default. You need to | Note that bind mounts are not going to be included when you backup the container by default. You need to | ||
set the backup flag to include them. | set the backup flag to include them. | ||
Revision as of 12:58, 14 December 2015
Introduction
Bind mounts allow you to access a directory, or a storage volume from your Proxmox VE host inside a container. There can be many purposes:
- Accessing your home directory in the guest
- Accessing a USB device directory in the guest
- Accessing a NFS mount from in the host in the guest
Note that the device you want to use has to be already accessible in the pve host. For security reasons, it is not possible to mount a device of NFS share directly in the guest.
Suppose you want to access the following directories in your LXC container with ID100:
- /target which is a local directory
- /mnt/pve/freenas which is a NFS mounted directory
Then you need to add the following parameters to /etc/pve/lxc/100.conf
mp0: /target/test,mp=/target mp1: /mnt/pve/freenas,mp=/mnt/pve/freenas
reboot your container and log in:
pct enter mount | egrep '(target|freenas)' /dev/dm-0 on /target type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) freenas.local:/mnt/TranstecThrough/exported
Manual method
- This works as of 2015-09-13 using lxc-pve: 1.1.3-1 .
- add this to the .conf file in /etc/pve/lxc
lxc.mount.entry: /host/folder container/folder none bind,create=dir,optional 0 0
Note: Do not put a '/' before the container target
Note: This adds an entry to "/var/lib/lxc/<containerID>/config" in the correct format. Do not edit "/var/lib/lxc/<containerID>/config" manually as that is overwritten on container boot.
Bind mounts and backup
Note that bind mounts are not going to be included when you backup the container by default. You need to set the backup flag to include them.
mp0: /target/test,mp=/target,backup=yes