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    adding a disk and set it as lvm-thin: help needed, please

    perfect! it seems I managed to do it!!! :) thank you
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    adding a disk and set it as lvm-thin: help needed, please

    Great! thank you! this is what I was looking for!!! Couple of questions, please: 1) pvcreate and vgcreate parameters some online tutorial suggests to add parameters to pvcreate and vgcreate, what is your opinion on that? see example below: pvcreate --metadatasize 1024M -y -ff...
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    adding a disk and set it as lvm-thin: help needed, please

    how do I do that? something like : lvcreate -l 100%FREE ? thank i want to do is to have LVM-thin to store VM and Container, hence, once I have created the thinpool, what do I need to do?
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    adding a disk and set it as lvm-thin: help needed, please

    hello people, I have been reading quite a bit how to add a new ssd to my homelab (proxmox) and how to add it as lvm-thin storage... I got to the following list of actions (assuming that nvme0n1 is the newly added SSD) format the disk sgdisk -N 1 /dev/nvme0n1 create a physical volume pvcreate...
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    I cannot see the ISO images when trying to create a VM

    sorted! I dot know why, but after the .ISO there saw some other characters... I think this was preventing the file to be recognized as a ISO... thank you for the tip!!!!
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    I cannot see the ISO images when trying to create a VM

    Hello, reading on the web, I thought that the ISO library was in /var/lib/vz/template/iso, but when I try to create a VM, I cannot find anything under the ISO dropbox... I have downloaded ubuntu ISO here: wget https://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04/ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso and I have cerified...
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    How to add a new disk as LVM-thin remove the LVM-thin from previous disk?

    do you mean just selecting the LVM partition and clicking "Wipe Disk"? out of curiosity, what exactly contains in LVM? where the ISO images are stored? luckily I am still highly testing, hence breaking everything would be ok :)
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    How to add a new disk as LVM-thin remove the LVM-thin from previous disk?

    perfect, then we are aligned :) you are right... I was overcomplicating things! do you suggest to: remove the local-lvm from SATA --> how do I do that? do you have any terminal commands for this? this will leave the SATA with an empty space... how will I extend the "ISO image" space to this...
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    How to add a new disk as LVM-thin remove the LVM-thin from previous disk?

    thank you, considering my "small" environment (just one node on an Intel NUC) I was thinking to give all "the ssd nvme speed" to the VMs, hence the desire to dedicate the nvme to LVM-thin.... I do not need to move any image, because I have started from scratch... what I had before to install...
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    How to add a new disk as LVM-thin remove the LVM-thin from previous disk?

    Hello, I have just added a new ssd (NVME) to my Proxmox server and I am confused on how to set this new disk as LVM-thin Architecture/Configuration: NUC i7 Primary Disk (where proxmox is installed): SATA 500GB Additional Disk (Newly added): NVME 1TB from the web-interface I have: wiped the...
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    How to add SMB/CIFS Storage to Proxmox Datacenter

    getting closer :) cifsscan retrieve the correct shartes :) the challenge now is that with the add command, it does not find "SambaQuique"... what is this???
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    How to add SMB/CIFS Storage to Proxmox Datacenter

    something just changed now, not sure if it is related to the smb error
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    How to add SMB/CIFS Storage to Proxmox Datacenter

    I cannot spot any errors :( should I try to add it via terminal? would it make any sense? or would I complicate the setting?
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    How to add SMB/CIFS Storage to Proxmox Datacenter

    yes it does work! I can actually see the SMB shares so why by adding it via UI it fails? and how do go proceed from here????
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    How to add SMB/CIFS Storage to Proxmox Datacenter

    Hello, I need to add an SMB network drive to my Proxomox implementation, but I am failing to add it. so far I have done the followings: Datacenter -> Storage -> Add -> SMB/CIFS and filled in the info below: ID: test_SMB Server: 192.168.1.145 --> this is the SMB IP address on a macbook...

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