Anatomy of LXC Container Config File

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Location

For PVE Node: pr64 and CT 101 the location is at /etc/pve/nodes/pr64/lxc/101.conf

This configuration gets copied over on startup of the container to /etc/pve/lxc/101.conf

Mounting the rootfs

Anatomy

pct mount 101

mounted CT 101 in '/var/lib/lxc/101/rootfs' 

ls -al /var/lib/lxc/101/rootfs

total 96 drwxr-xr-x 21 100000 100000 4096 Sep 28 22:27 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 28 23:32 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 100000 100000 4096 Sep 28 22:05 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 100000 100000 4096 Jul 14 2014 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 100000 100000 4096 Dec 10 2008 dev drwxr-xr-x 61 100000 100000 4096 Sep 28 22:27 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 100000 100000 4096 Jul 14 2014 home drwxr-xr-x 8 100000 100000 4096 Sep 28 22:05 lib drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Sep 28 22:27 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 100000 100000 4096 Sep 28 22:04 media drwxr-xr-x 2 100000 100000 4096 Jul 14 2014 mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 100000 100000 4096 Sep 28 22:04 opt drwxr-xr-x 2 100000 100000 4096 Jul 14 2014 proc drwx------ 2 100000 100000 4096 Sep 28 22:31 root drwxr-xr-x 2 100000 100000 4096 Sep 28 22:06 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 100000 100000 4096 Jul 21 2010 selinux drwxr-xr-x 2 100000 100000 4096 Sep 28 22:04 srv drwxr-xr-x 2 100000 100000 4096 Mar 28 2012 sys drwxrwxrwt 4 100000 100000 4096 Sep 28 23:09 tmp drwxr-xr-x 10 100000 100000 4096 Sep 28 22:04 usr drwxr-xr-x 14 100000 100000 4096 Sep 28 22:05 var 

pct unmount 101

Copy a local file to the container. 

pct push <vmid> <file> <destination> [OPTIONS]

Copy a file from the container to the local system. 

pct pull <vmid> <path> <destination> [OPTIONS]


Other Mount Info

mkdir /mnt/bak
mount /dev/sddX /mnt/bak

(this is only persistent until the next reboot)

You should then be able to browse the files of that storage in /mnt/bak

Configure storage in PVE GUI or use the CLI: 

pvesm add dir bak --path /mnt/bak --content backup
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