lvm-thin

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    I cant Repair lvm-thin volume after power failure

    Hi All. I have lost access to my thin-lvm and I can't get it repaired. It happened after a power failure. I have an HPPerc Raid controller connected to a Dell MD100 powervault So my lvm for OS is working and my internal 40TB lvm raid is working. It's just the one connected to the other raid...
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    Forcefully delete a virtual disk in a full thin lvm pool

    Hello, I've recently tried restoring a backup after accidentally deleting a VM, and the pool seems to be malfunctioning. A restart didn't fix, googled some bit. Tried lvconvert --repair /dev/pve/data and that gives me Volume group "YUGEv3" has insufficient free space (30 extents): 2385 required...
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    Trim errors/not working on debian 11 guest / LVM-Thin storage

    Hello, i have problems with trim on debian 11 guest VM , i used windows server as guest on different VM and its was working for it i used virtio-scsi and ssd emulation on/off, discard on underlying storage is NVME drive pveversion pve-manager/7.2-4/ca9d43cc (running kernel: 5.15.35-1-pve) cat...
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    Nice little sh-script to monitor LVM-thin space with warn mail

    With these little 2 scripts you can monitor your LVM-thin space to be aware of snapshots killing your overprovisioned storage. Save each script as .sh-File, chmod +x the file and it's directly ready to use after finding the attribute output in LVS command. Change the mail-adress, it runs fine...
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    LVM-Thin Ballooning not working - High memory Usage

    Hello, I have some problems with my PVE host and mostly with the RAM management. I attach the screen of my host resources: On this host, I installed one(and only one) VM, that it configured as shown in the following image: The Ballooning is corretly enabled, but I don’t understand why the...
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    [SOLVED] how to adding a second drive for backups, VM's and CT's ?

    hello I am using latest PVE, proxmox-ve: 7.1-1 (running kernel: 5.13.19-6-pve) pve-manager: 7.1-11 (running version: 7.1-11/8d529482) pve-kernel-helper: 7.1-13 pve-kernel-5.13: 7.1-9 pve-kernel-5.4: 6.4-11 pve-kernel-5.13.19-6-pve: 5.13.19-14 pve-kernel-5.13.19-5-pve: 5.13.19-13...
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    LVM-Thin Storage filling up why?

    I have two RAID-10 spans configured on my server (4 x 1TB HDDs per RAID 10) One stores the local and local-lvm (2TB storage) The second span I turned into its own LVM-thin storage, i called it data2 (2TB storage) On data2 I've created only one container. I wanted my data2 lvm-thin to only...
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    Noob: lvm-thin not mounted

    Noob to proxmox... but my understanding lvm-thin data should be auto mounted to /var/lib/vz All I'm getting is 100Gb and constantly running out of space when my backups run. I don't know what I should be searching for to fix this, but I need the rest of my drivespace available.
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    Backups restoren lässt andere VMs abstürtzen, Ursache lvm-thin?

    Hallo, wir sind auf eine neue Version von Proxmox umgestiegen. Seit dem ist es so, dass wenn wir ein Backup von unserm externen Backup-Server wiederherstellen, die anderen VMs nicht mehr reagieren oder abschmieren. Da ist ein ziemliches Problem weil darunter auch ein DHCP und Mail-Server sind...
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    local-lvm on a new installation

    What is the purpose of the local-lvm on a new installation of Proxmox VE? Can the space be reclaimed and repurposed into a directory so that it will also be able to store snapshots, backups, and others...
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    Migrate ZFS to LVM-Thin

    I have a three node cluster with ZFS running on each node and aside from disk space and utilization everything runs great, migrations work, backup to NFS, snapshots, the one thing that has me in a jam is disk space, so I decided to migrate all VMS from one node consolidating to two and using the...
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    Extend LVM and revert to original setup

    Dear All Today I had some time to study and test LVM on my home server. I did some changes, but now I cannot revert the server to original setup. These are the tasks I did: - I physically added a 250 Gb Sata SSD on /dev/sda device. It was from my RP4 old server, and, to blank it all, I dd'ed it...
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    vm io-error

    I used lvm-thin volume in promxox, but it show quota not correct. I have lvm-thin: 1.80TB, I created 80 vm disk 30GB/VM, usage disk 12GB/VM, as I understand lvm-thin is calculated according to the amount used as such. total = 80x12 = 960GB but my lvm-thin show full disk 1.8TB and vm status...
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    Create Backup on existing Thinpool

    Hi all, I want to create a backup of our a VM on a existing Thinpool. As it is only a temporary backup before an upgrade of the VM (and we have an external backup job as well) it is okay when the backup is on the same machine as the VM itself (as I don't know where Proxmox is storing snapshots...
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    How to resize /dev/mapper/system--vuyls-root to create LVM thin-pool without breaking Proxmox

    Hello guys, I use server from Oneprovider and i have problem with their Proxmox Installation. As you can see in attachment images : about 910GB HDD allocated to /dev/mapper/system--vuyls-root. In Proxmox Web GUI i can create CT and VMs normally but the feature snapshot isn't available. Can you...
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    [SOLVED] Removing old Storage from GUI

    Hey guys! I'm still getting used to Proxmox, but so far it's been amazing! Since I'm still getting hands-on learning about the product, naturally I've been playing around with storage configurations. I've created some lvm/lvm-thin volume groups, but they were temporary, and I now wish to...
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    How to create and add a new virtual disk to a VM using command line.

    Hello, I've tried below but failed: $ pvesm alloc <lvm-thin-storage> 123 '' 5G successfully created '<lvm-thin-storage>:vm-123-disk-1' $ qm set 123 --scsihw virtio-scsi-pci --scsi1 <lvm-thin-storage>:vm-123-disk1,discard=on,ssd=1 update VM 123: -scsi1...
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    LVM to LVM-THIN

    Hello everyone, I need to know if I can change a HD from lvm to lvm-thin, I have a vm on this hd that is on lvm and its backups are coming from the size of the hd and not from the use of the vm.
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    [SOLVED] Volume Group not activated after the node reboot

    Hello! I experience a weird issue on Proxmox 6.1. I've added a storage as LVM-thin. The container storage was created on this storage. After the machine is rebooted, the storage showed as 0% usage and the container would not launch. After debugging this issue for quite some time I've noticed...
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    [SOLVED] Recover LXC Image from LVM-Thin Volume

    Hi everyone, After a botched removal of a node from a cluster, I'm left with no configs but several lxc disk images in an lvm-thin volume. Is there any way for me to recover it or make a mock lxc config to get those up and running? I do not remember the drive size as the last time I was on the...