Help !!! Question about remove Datastore (free up space?)

[jean1]

Hello Guys!!!

I need some help Please!!! ,My PBS is full and I cant do anything (cant prune or delete, etc) my question is, if I remove de Datastore of the PBS and make it again, I will recover the space? like make a Re-Inizialization of the datastore (I dont care the info of the old datastore).

Thanks In advance !!!

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[niziak]

PBS stores data in simple files. Most space is occupied by data stored in "hidden" directory .chunks. So you can temporary move some chunks to other storage perform prune and gc and restore chunks back.

 

[jean1]

I dont have another unit to move the files, if I remove the datastore (with the button "remove datastore", the files inside are also deleted?

 

[fabian]

if you tick the corresponding checkbox, yes.

 

[VictorSTS]

I dont have another unit to move the files

You can always use something like scp or sftp to copy some files to your PC, then use my step by step recovery method [1]. Once some space is recovered, copy the files back to the same location they were.

[1] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/how-to-recover-from-100-disk-use.142044/post-637174

 

[jean1]

Thanks for the answers guys !!!!