Proxmox bind mounts to add an external usb drive and make that drive and all the data available to a container.
I wanted a simple way to add an external drive that already had data on it and to make that available to containers in Proxmox. The external drive obviously has to be persistently mounted into the Proxmox host. You do that by mounting it via the /etc/fstab. When I first started I wasn't able to get this done. On the WWW there was very little discussion on how to actually do this and as usual the discussions that did happen didn't mention the important "between the lines" information that would make understanding this easier. For instance, if you assign CPUs to a container the default is one (1) CPU and you think well, I have to increase that value to give more resources, but what isn't mentioned is that if…