Linux Containers (LXCs) are used for lightweight, efficient Linux environments that need full OS features. They share the host’s kernel and are great for resource-constrained servers. Hard drives cannot be passed through to LXCs. They are mounted on the host then use a Bind Mount to make them available to the LXC. The LXC .conf file (e.g. /etc/pve/lxc/100.conf) defines the mount point (e.g. mp0: /mnt/storage,mp=/mnt/storage).

By default, LXCs are created as unprivileged and file permissions show owner as nobody:nobody. Change the owner on the host to 100000:10000 (chown -R 100000:100000 /mnt/storage). Use ‘chmod -R 755 /mnt/storage’ to ensure read/write access.

The best practice for datacenter storage is to mount the drive on the host and use ‘directory’ when adding storage to datacenter.