new HDD added

[gmichale]

Hello,

I've connected via USB new HDD disk. In my homelab data center it's viisble as 1 TB disk however when I mount it and add as directory I can see only ~65GB. Why is it so?

 

[Dunuin]

whats your output of fdisk -l /dev/sda and lsblk? Is your root filesystem on the NVME maybe also around 57GB free? If yes it is not mounted correctly.

 

[gmichale]

no, both commands shows again ~1TB

 

[gmichale]

whats your output of fdisk -l /dev/sda and lsblk? Is your root filesystem on the NVME maybe also around 57GB free? If yes it is not mounted correctly.

in addition, I did the mount/unmount loop few times etc. mouting it with -t ntfs parameters and now have some extra problem.


when I go to proxmox UI and want to add storage got another error...


what's going on?

 

[Dunuin]

First its not ideal to use NTFS on linux as its Microsoft propietary and therefore not well optimized and with missing features if you compare it against a linux filesystem like ext4 or xfs. If you just want to use that USB HDD with PVE I would suggest formating it to something else like ext4 or xfs.

Second point is that you need to set the "is_mountpoint" option for a directory storage if it is pointing to a mountpoint. That can only be done using CLI with pvesm YourStorageName --is_mountpoint yes.