Proxmox VM - External HDD

🚧 Installation
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My plan is to create a Debian (or Ubuntu) VM on my Proxmox server and have Nextcloud serve the content of an external HDD I have connected to the host PC running Proxmox.

I have the HDD mounted on the host at ‘/mnt/media’. But how do I go about giving the NC VM access to it. And then how to configure NC to serve the content of the drive?

Output from fdisk -l on the Proxmox server, if it’s of any use:

Disk /dev/sdb: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: Desktop         
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x0060c9f4

Device     Boot Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1        2048 1953523711 1953521664 931.5G 83 Linux

Is this feasible?

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In the proxmox panel, you can add storage and then redistribute to individual virtual hosts. Personally, I’d rather use internal storages, they are more reliable and I don’t know how it is handled if the connection to the disk is lost.