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    Local storage is filled during a full backup

    Hi all, I have a Proxmox VE 8.2.2 with few VM and a Nakivo v11 Trial that support Proxmox platform. This Nakivo makes backups of the main VM which is a Windows Server. This morning i found the Windows VM stuck in I\O error state. Impossible to stop or start the VM. After a forced reboot of the...
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    Cleaning up "local" storage

    Hi alll, I moved my USB drive, and the cable came part-way out. Result was that my backups went onto local as well as usb-drive. By that I mean, PVE managed to map both labels to the same place. local is 100GB, so it ran out of space, and I did not notice for 3 weeks. No biggie - I have not...
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    [SOLVED] Local full after backup unsuccessfull

    Hey guys, Proxmox is amazing and was working pretty flawlessly in my environment. Today I checked in on the system and saw that there was a backup job throwing an error. Checking the storages I saw that my external harddrive dropped from 500 GB storage to just 100 GB storage. After a reboot the...
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    [SOLVED] Local Storage fehlt nach Cluster Build

    Eigentlich nutze ich Blockstorage nicht, aber dank dem Hinweis von Falk wegen NVME-oF wollte ich mal den Einsatz von Blockstorage testen. Ich habe einen Node mit LVM und einen Node mit BTRFS aufgesetzt. Dann habe ich dem einem 'nen iSCSI-Storage zugewiesen. Damit der anderen den auch sieht und...
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    "local" hd filled with less than 2 ISOs

    Hello to all - a nubee here with a new Proxmox cluster running on three thin clients, each with a 16GB boot disk and a 1TB m.2 SATA, and with 36G RAM. The cluster is configured with shares on a separate TrueNAS box for general shared storage (including ISOs) and for backups. Those shares show up...
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    [SOLVED] Reduce local and Increase local-lvm Disk size?

    Hi All, After installing proxmox 7.3, i saw the following disk sizes info - local 100GB - local-lvm 1.64TB root:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 1.6T 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 1007K 0 part ├─sda2 8:2...
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    Delete Local LVM and resize storage in Proxmox

    Just saw a this video showing how to consolidate local (pve) with local-lvm (pve) onto a unified local (pve) drive by @ProgrammingStuff22 on YouTube. This looks quite interesting. My local (pve) recently inflated due to some experiments I was doing with rclone. Does anyone know if this can...
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    Local(pve) not using all of the storage available in LVM partition it is in

    I am using proxmox virtual environment 7.0-8 My machine is named pve, so the corresponding namings below- The issue I am describing started after I cloned my proxmox HD from a 250 GB HD to a new 500 GB HD. Originally, with the 250 GB HD, the default local(pve) storage (resides in /var/lib/vz...
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    removing/cleaning the local drive

    hi, i currently have 0 space left on my local drive, i have another called local-proxmox which is where i save all my vm's etc it has loads of space so im wondering how do i clean the local drive? as i want to be able to do things again it has basicly stopped working now becuase its "full" the...
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    cannot access Management GUI via xfce+chromium directly on host server

    Hello everyone, i just installed proxmox for the first time and after the installation followed https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Workstations_with_Proxmox_VE_and_X11 since i needed to get some vms going for work and didn‘t have any client on hand. Now whenever i open chromium and navigate...
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    Increase Partition size

    Hi guys, I recently bought a server on which I run Proxmox for virtualization. First I installed Proxmox directly on my 1TB SSD, but then realized that I was losing almost 100GB for the "local" partition, but I wanted to use the fast SSD storage for the "local-lvm", i.e. the VMs themselves...
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    Default install size

    It seems as if the default install sets local at 100 GB. That's way overkill for my scenarios. Is there a way to change that upon install or after install (before adding VM's)?
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    Search Domain reverts to "local"

    My PVE 6.2-12 installation insists on reverting the search domain back to "local". The first time or two, I thought I forgot to set the domain, today was the third or forth time I changed it to the correct domain. How can I fix this? It's causing trouble in PMG where senders expect to find...
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    [Solved] Unable to initialize Samsung 970 Evo nvme SSD with GPT

    Hi, I'm new to proxmox. I installed the default regular way. When I logged in to the web gui I see local and local-lvm under the pve node. When I click the "initialize Disk with GPT" option it works for all disk except for the Samsung 970 Evo nvme SSD which fails with exit code 2. I checked...
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    whereabouts of local:vztmpl/* ?

    Hi, I see in various examples the referenced donation of ostemplate as something like: .... ostemplate="local:vztmpl/debian-.....tar.gz" and so forth My question is where is "local:vztmpl/" physically on both the proxmox server and in the proxmox gui. The template in which I saw this...
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    Local Shared Storage: Question about behavior

    Hello all, So I have a 3-node cluster which each server loaded with local hard drives. I want to share the local hard drives across all the systems in the cluster, so I did the following: Used parted to initialize with GPT and create a partition Used mkfs.ext4 to create a filesystem on each...
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    Change from local-lvm to local storage

    Hi, I have recently installed a Proxmox 4.4-18/ef2610e8 node in a existing cluster. Our node has a 8 TB disc, but I realised that our storage is like this: local: 100 GB local-lvm : (almost) 8 TB Since the other nodes on the cluster have storage type local, we would prefer this new node will...
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    [SOLVED] Installed Proxmox 5.1 on 2 TB hard drive but only 88 GB is being used?

    Hello! I haven't tried installing proxmox to a high volume drive and once I did on my 2 TB hard drive the root directory is only shown to be using up 88 GB. Can anyone please help me initialize the big chunk of the unused area in my 2 TB hard drive? Thank you!
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    change directory size

    I installed Promxmox 5.1-38 version. I have 2T hard drive. After installation it has 90G local (PATH /var/lib/vz ) and the rest of hard is local-lvm (LVM-thin). Now I want to increase local up to 300G and leave the rest for local-lvm. I do the following steps : #lvremove pve/data #lvresize -l...
  20. Coolguy3289

    No space Allocated to Local-lvm

    Hello, I am currently trying to create a VM/CT in proxmox, however I get the following error during machine creation: TASK ERROR: no such volume group 'pve' Upon some checking, I noticed that the Local-lvm has no Space at all allocated to it. When I installed this instance, I setup a SW raid...