disk allocation

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    One disk for host data - best practices.

    Please forgive me, as I'm a total beginner. I'm wondering best practices/feedback on using one disk as the storage for multiple VMs and CTs. Here's what I have right now: /dev/sdc is used for backups. /dev/sdd is used for security cam storage. Things get a bit funky with ZFS formatted disk...
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    Possible to hide disks that have been directly passed to a VM

    I've setup a TrueNAS VM on my Proxmox. To allow it to "do its thing", I've passed the disks directly to the VM by their disk IDs with Serial numbers. This works perfectly, Truenas sees the disks and has happily made a ZFS pool out of them, I believe this is the best way to do it where the pool...
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    Proxmox Storage Capacity and Volumes

    Hello, I have a new installation of proxmox on my scaleway cloud. This server has two ssd of 1TB. However I can only see the vmdata and local which are 50 gb and 900gb. How can I utilize the other 1 TB disk?
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    Creeping disk usage with PiMox

    I'm actually running PiMox on an RPi4, and I'm seeing increased disk usage for no obvious reason. It seems the .qcow file keeps consuming more and more disk space. I see no reason why. 384GB are allocated for it, but everyday it consumes another GB or so. What have I missed? Thanks.
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    Opinions on internal disk allocations/assignments

    Hi All, I want to get some thoughts/opinions from you guys with regard to my internal disk allocations. My server has: RAID1 (2x 240GB) - sdb RAID5 (3x 1.9TB) - sda root# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 3.5T 0 disk...

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