lvm-thin

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    [SOLVED] Convert to LVM-Thin without losing data

    Hello, I'm new with proxmox , i have an LVM Storage and i want to migrate to LVM-Thin without losing my machines , is there any option ? My storage is /dev/hd2 which is 1.8 T.Byte and i'm using 500GB . Have you any idea about how to migrate without losing my data ? Because it's in production...
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    Problem with LVM thin pool: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error

    Hello, I'm trying to migrate my existing KVM images to Proxmox KVM virtual machine. I have to do that for my existing LXC containers. The storage i prefer to use is LVM thin pool, because this storage support live snapshot of all types of VM's - KVM or LXC based. For the migration purpose i'm...
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    Cannot Destory CT

    Good morning, I cannot destry a CT. I receive message: "TASK ERROR: lvremove 'vmdata/vm-111-disk-1' error: Logical volume vmdata/vm-111-disk-1 contains a filesystem in use." Even from console: lvremove -f /dev/vmdata/vm-111-disk-1 Logical volume vmdata/vm-111-disk-1 contains a filesystem...
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    Understanding lvm-thin volumes and storage

    On a brand new install of 4.2, I created a thin volume in the "pve/data" pool that was created automatically. I then created a new container and assigned the new thin volume as the root storage. However, in the GUI, I see the disk image under both the new lvm-thin volume and the "local-lvm"...
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    proxmox 4.1 upgrade 4.2

    i setup new node with 4.2, i noted that storage have local in type lvm and local-lvm in type lvm-thin. Now i need to upgrade another machine from 4.1 to 4.2 my storage change during upgrade?? how the real advantage to user lvm-thin now? possible migrate lvm in lvm-thin with data in lvm...
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    [SOLVED] all vms down and lvm-thin not backupable

    after this night all vms on one of our proxmox srevers are down and it seems that the lvm-thin has problems. lvs prints a lot of warnings: in the syslog there seems one harddisk out of these mirror raids to be defect: how can i get a backup out of these machines?
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    how to make lvm-thin local storage shared?

    we have three nodes in a cluster all are using nfs shared storage but for io intense vms we use local ssd mirror raids as a faster storage. but what to do if i want to migrate a vm from one local ssd lvm-thin storage to another node without having to move the storage to the nfs before this? is...
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    web thin-pool verification typo error

    if i create a new thin pool named "1tb_thin" i can't create a new data pool within that through the webinterface cause it claims "illegal characters" I think this is wrong on your side - but i'm not sure... - for now i'll recreate this LV with another name without the underscore... ;-)
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    Trying to understand LVM models in 4.2

    We are currently migrating one server to 4.2 and LXC and after looking at various threads I still don't have 100% clear what the new use of LVM-thin involves as far as previous storage model. We mainly use containers with many bind mounts we've now migrated to LXC contents. We maintain LVM...
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    LVM-Thin Question Proxmox 4.2

    Hi, Got a question re LVM-Thin on Proxmox 4.2.New and not very experienced Linux user here -just got my head around the whole LVM thinggy :) (is was easier on Windows for me). Anyway I want to create a new LVM-thin with 2 SSDs I have. Then I want to store everything on this newly created...