local-lvm trying to change the ability to add iso

[DogezRule]

I have a dl380 g6 and it has a 3tb local-lvm and it doesnt have the property to hold an iso. I tried changing the property but i feel like something hasn't been applied because It hasnt worked.
storage.cfg file:
dir: local
path /var/lib/vz
content iso,vztmpl,backup

lvmthin: local-lvm
thinpool data
vgname pve
content rootdir,images,iso

 

[bbgeek17]

local-lvm, or LVM in general, is a block type storage. You cant store files on it directly.
You can manually slice off a piece from it, format it with a filesystem of your choice, mount and create a second "dir" type storage.

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[DogezRule]

local-lvm, or LVM in general, is a block type storage. You cant store files on it directly.
You can manually slice off a piece from it, format it with a filesystem of your choice, mount and create a second "dir" type storage.

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Local-lvm and when I go to the page called local it gives me an option to upload an iso image but it doesnt on local-lvm

 

[Dunuin]

Local-lvm and when I go to the page called local it gives me an option to upload an iso image but it doesnt on local-lvm

ISOs are files, so you need file level storage to store them. Block level storages just can't do that. And "local-lvm" is a LVM-Thin pool which is a block level storage. You will have to use the CLI to manually create a Thin volume on your LVM-Thin pool, format that thin volume with the filesystem of your choice and mount that filesystem. After that you can use the webUI to create a new directory storage pointing to the mountpoint of your mounted filesystem. This directroy storage then can be used to store ISOs and they will consume space on your 3TB LVM-Thin pool.

 

[DogezRule]

ISOs are files, so you need file level storage to store them. Block level storages just can't do that. And "local-lvm" is a LVM-Thin pool which is a block level storage. You will have to use the CLI to manually create a Thin volume on your LVM-Thin pool, format that thin volume with the filesystem of your choice and mount that filesystem. After that you can use the webUI to create a new directory storage pointing to the mountpoint of your mounted filesystem. This directroy storage then can be used to store ISOs and they will consume space on your 3TB LVM-Thin pool.

Im kinda a newbie to proxmox is there a documentation on how to do things like this

 

[Dunuin]

This question wasn't asked the first time, so I'm sure in another thread someone already explained in detail how to do this. But I wasn't able to quickly find a tutorial for this. This is also not proxmox specific, except for the part with adding a new directroy storage. Its normal linux administration stuff, so you might also look for some Debian tutorials on how to create LVs, format block devices and mount filesystems using fstab.

 

[bbgeek17]

Im kinda a newbie to proxmox is there a documentation on how to do things like this

Most of it is not "proxmox" thing but rather a Linux thing.

create a logical volume:
https://access.redhat.com/documenta..._volume_manager_administration/vol_create_ex3

making a filesystem:
https://access.redhat.com/documenta..._volume_manager_administration/make_mount_ex3

mount filesystem so it works after reboot:
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/etc-fstab

add it to Proxmox:
https://nubcakes.net/index.php/2019/03/05/how-to-add-storage-to-proxmox

@Dunuin

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