Hello.
New to Proxmox and and have been experimenting with various approaches and creating and deleting VE:s for a while.
I have two questions:
1.
I now have a setup that works so I would really like to make sure I understand and have the disk setup correct in the long run.
I see old backups and stuff I no longer need that I am not sure how I can safely delete permanently to reclaim as much disk space as possible.
I see other posts about this but would truly appreciate specific advice if at all possible.
As I understand it I should basically just run two commands that should be safe to run and not delete any files or partitions?.
They are just examples as I don't know as yet exactly what size I should go for:
I also wonder where I set this that I am warned about when doing snapshots of the Debian VE:
The setup is pretty standard: Home Assistant, Frigate and Pihole. Working very well
I basically just want to make sure I have access to all the disk space without having to delete anything again
as I do not have full backups off the proxmox server as yet.
2.
That is my second question: What is best procedure to take backups off the server of the VM:s ?
I am comfortable with off -server Home Assistant backups so that is solved and Pihole is easy enough to recreate also.
The Debian VM and the proxmox setup itself is pretty complex and new to me, so backups of that is the weak link right now.
Many thanks if anyone has the time to have look at this when possible.
Below is all the output I understand as relevant as code blocks.
vgs:
lvs:
lsblk
New to Proxmox and and have been experimenting with various approaches and creating and deleting VE:s for a while.
I have two questions:
1.
I now have a setup that works so I would really like to make sure I understand and have the disk setup correct in the long run.
I see old backups and stuff I no longer need that I am not sure how I can safely delete permanently to reclaim as much disk space as possible.
I see other posts about this but would truly appreciate specific advice if at all possible.
As I understand it I should basically just run two commands that should be safe to run and not delete any files or partitions?.
They are just examples as I don't know as yet exactly what size I should go for:
Code:
lvextend -L+100G> pve/data
lvresize --poolmetadatasize +1GB pve/dataI also wonder where I set this that I am warned about when doing snapshots of the Debian VE:
Code:
WARNING: You have not turned on protection against thin pools running out of space.
WARNING: Set activation/thin_pool_autoextend_threshold below 100 to trigger automatic extension of thin pools before they get full.The setup is pretty standard: Home Assistant, Frigate and Pihole. Working very well
I basically just want to make sure I have access to all the disk space without having to delete anything again
as I do not have full backups off the proxmox server as yet.
2.
That is my second question: What is best procedure to take backups off the server of the VM:s ?
I am comfortable with off -server Home Assistant backups so that is solved and Pihole is easy enough to recreate also.
The Debian VM and the proxmox setup itself is pretty complex and new to me, so backups of that is the weak link right now.
Many thanks if anyone has the time to have look at this when possible.
Below is all the output I understand as relevant as code blocks.
vgs:
Code:
root@pve2:~# vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
pve 1 13 0 wz--n- <475.00g 16.00g
root@pve2:~# lsblk -o+FSTYPE,LABEL,MODEL
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS FSTYPE LABEL MODEL
sda 8:0 0 476.9G 0 disk 512GB SSD
├─sda1 8:1 0 1007K 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 1G 0 part /boot/efi vfat
└─sda3 8:3 0 475G 0 part LVM2_member
├─pve-swap 252:0 0 8G 0 lvm [SWAP] swap
├─pve-root 252:1 0 96G 0 lvm / ext4
├─pve-data_tmeta 252:2 0 3.5G 0 lvm
│ └─pve-data-tpool 252:4 0 347.9G 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-data 252:5 0 347.9G 1 lvm
│ ├─pve-vm--100--disk--0 252:6 0 100G 0 lvm ext4
│ ├─pve-vm--101--disk--0 252:7 0 64G 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-vm--101--disk--1 252:8 0 4M 0 lvm
│ └─pve-vm--102--disk--0 252:9 0 2G 0 lvm ext4
└─pve-data_tdata 252:3 0 347.9G 0 lvm
└─pve-data-tpool 252:4 0 347.9G 0 lvm
├─pve-data 252:5 0 347.9G 1 lvm
├─pve-vm--100--disk--0 252:6 0 100G 0 lvm ext4
├─pve-vm--101--disk--0 252:7 0 64G 0 lvm
├─pve-vm--101--disk--1 252:8 0 4M 0 lvm
└─pve-vm--102--disk--0 252:9 0 2G 0 lvm ext4
root@pve2:~#
Code:
root@pve2:~# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda3 pve lvm2 a-- <475.00g 16.00g
root@pve2:~#lvs:
Code:
root@pve2:~# lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
data pve twi-aotz-- <347.90g 37.01 1.79
root pve -wi-ao---- 96.00g
snap_vm-100-disk-0_working_after_fubar pve Vri---tz-k 100.00g data vm-100-disk-0
snap_vm-101-disk-0_a1 pve Vri---tz-k 32.00g data vm-101-disk-0
snap_vm-101-disk-0_working_after_fubar pve Vri---tz-k 32.00g data vm-101-disk-0
snap_vm-101-disk-1_a1 pve Vri---tz-k 4.00m data vm-101-disk-1
snap_vm-101-disk-1_working_after_fubar pve Vri---tz-k 4.00m data vm-101-disk-1
swap pve -wi-ao---- 8.00g
vm-100-disk-0 pve Vwi-aotz-- 100.00g data 55.25
vm-101-disk-0 pve Vwi-aotz-- 64.00g data 83.64
vm-101-disk-1 pve Vwi-aotz-- 4.00m data 14.06
vm-101-state-working_after_fubar pve Vwi---tz-- <12.21g data
vm-102-disk-0 pve Vwi-aotz-- 2.00g data 79.32
root@pve2:~#lsblk
Code:
root@pve2:~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 476.9G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1007K 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 1G 0 part /boot/efi
└─sda3 8:3 0 475G 0 part
├─pve-swap 252:0 0 8G 0 lvm [SWAP]
├─pve-root 252:1 0 96G 0 lvm /
├─pve-data_tmeta 252:2 0 3.5G 0 lvm
│ └─pve-data-tpool 252:4 0 347.9G 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-data 252:5 0 347.9G 1 lvm
│ ├─pve-vm--100--disk--0 252:6 0 100G 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-vm--101--disk--0 252:7 0 64G 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-vm--101--disk--1 252:8 0 4M 0 lvm
│ └─pve-vm--102--disk--0 252:9 0 2G 0 lvm
└─pve-data_tdata 252:3 0 347.9G 0 lvm
└─pve-data-tpool 252:4 0 347.9G 0 lvm
├─pve-data 252:5 0 347.9G 1 lvm
├─pve-vm--100--disk--0 252:6 0 100G 0 lvm
├─pve-vm--101--disk--0 252:7 0 64G 0 lvm
├─pve-vm--101--disk--1 252:8 0 4M 0 lvm
└─pve-vm--102--disk--0 252:9 0 2G 0 lvm
root@pve2:~#
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