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    Newly installed system with a single VM, and fdisk outputs "The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used."

    I have just done a fresh Proxmox installation, and then installed a single VM (Home Assisant using this install script). My fdisk -l output shows the following error message with regards to the new vm-100-disk-1 partition (which is part of the data LV thin pool): The backup GPT table is...
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    I am having problems deleting partitions in Proxmox

    I have an 8TB SSD that shows 4 Harddrive partitions inside the SSD. I have used Fdisk, but the disk is not mounted and I cannot use Parted. I connected the SSD to a Windows PC and deleted the partition, but it still shows in Proxmox. Can someone explain to me what's going on?
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    Festplatte für VM Store

    Hallo community, ich bin neu in Proxmox-Welt ;-) Ich habe ein Frage zu Drives für VMs Store. Festplatte ist angehängt (Physische Raid). Mir geht es nur um Partitionieren und Formatieren. Welche FS ist die beste Wahl für VM Store? ext3,ext4 oder btrfs? Hat es Sinn ein swap Partition...
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    Partition does not start on physical sector boundary.

    Hi, I did a fresh installation of Proxmox and I created a FreeBSD Virtual machine. If I execute fdisk -l it shows me a warning. What I'm doing wrong ? How can I fix this?
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    [SOLVED] After Cloning Proxmox drive to a larger drive I have trouble with partition sizes.

    SOLVED the first part but added a question I cloned my Proxmox setup to 4TB drive and added a second 4TB drive to my system which I can see in my lsblk command output but my local-lvm drive still reports 100% usage. I made the mistake of resizing vm-500-disk-1 without checking the local-lvm...
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    Fail to find partition on loop device inside container

    Good morning, I'm having a problem with creating and using a loop device interface, in particular using internal partition. I'm using Yocto to create an image. I've already done this on a separate machine, and I moved to proxmox machine recently reproducing the same steps. I'm using a Ubuntu...
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    Need help with partitioning

    Hello, I've recently re-created my proxmox setup (I'm kinda noob on this) following guides. I've partioned my disk during the installation (ssd 500G) in order to have free space as VM storage. How can I use this free space? I've look around and find that I should use fdisk but when I do it says...
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    [SOLVED] Use physical disk partition as fileserver for Virtual Machine or Container

    Hello everyone, I would like to know if it is possible to use a physical disk partition (SSD) as a space for files serving a virtual machine or container. I want to create a virtualized NAS in which the files are always visible and available regardless of the VM or CT (e.g. by physically...
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    partition hdd directory

    Hello, I need help guys. I have a separate 500GB HDD drive, I created it as a Directory through the GUI in ext4, created one partition /dev/sdc1, but did not find how to make a second partition /dev/sdc2 in the GUI. Is it possible to split a 250GB Directory disk into 2 partitions and how to do it?
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    I wish to increase a Directory in size after upgrading physical disk

    I first had a 1TB SSD and a secondary 1TB hdd in my system. I upgraded the secondary 1TB HDD to a 2TB SSD. I created the directory on the old 1TB HDD so now i have a 1TB directory and can't seem to resize it to 2TB. Now the problem is that the partition is 2TB but the directory doesn't change...
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    Best Practice... Install additional storage drive.

    Hey Gang... I have a basic Proxmox setup (8.0.4). The server has an 500GB nvme drive with the default set up of: local 100gb local-lvm 400gb I'm a 2TB SATA SSD drive to the mix, and wondering the best way to set it up to be able to: Store more VM's (less active) Store Backups all VM's...
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    Create LVM partition on proxmox installed on debian

    I have just installed proxmox on top of debian bookworm not because I want a custom partition layout, but because the proxmox ISO wouldn't install of my machine due to driver issues (when booting the ISO, it halted on the loading drivers part). Here is my current partition layout how would...
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    How to remove a NTFS partition from SSD?

    Brand new n00b to Proxmox. I installed it last night and liked what I saw, so I am going to play with it a bit. Today I swapped out an old Adata SU630 SSD for a new Samsung NVMe on my son's desktop, so I thought I would throw it in this PVE machine. As you can see, it is reading the SSD, but it...
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    Homelab cluster - disk setup best practice guide, ZFS

    Hi - firstly, I have looked for a guide on how best to do this, but haven't found anything that I can make sense of, mostly because the majority appears to (understandably) be targeted towards Enterprise environments - if i've missed one, I would be very grateful for a link, and totally...
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    two systems on the same hd

    Good afternoon. My doubt is simple, but I do not know if it is possible to do. I have only 1 hd of 1TB and want to install two different systems (Windows10 and Debian). Would it be possible to divide this same HD in equal sizes to install the two systems? I tried to partition it. I installed...
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    Swap almost full

    Hello, The available swap space on one of the servers is almost all in use (7GB used out of 8GB), even though it has plenty of memory available (50GB used out of 188GB). I would like help with two questions: 1 - How can I reduce the use of swap, even having several containers using swap? 2 -...
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    Zweite Festplatte Partition und ZFS

    Hallo Zusammen, ich installiere gerade meinen ersten Proxmox Server. Habe eine NVMe mit 256 GB und eine 1 TB Sata SDD. Auf dern NVMe wurde Proxmox installiert. Auf der 1TB wollte ich ZFS als Dateisystem einrichten und die VM Disk ablegen. Jetzt habe ich mehrere Fragen: Wo lade ich dann die ISOs...
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    [SOLVED] proxmox disk partition, no space left on device

    Hello! when i try to run apt update on my proxmox 7.2 server, i'm getting a list of errors and warnings because the / directory is full and it's saying that there's no space left on the device. and i don't have a disk partition for LVM storage so i'm not able to add ISO files anymore, what can...
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    no space in my local-lvm proxmox... [HELP]

    hello, recently it is the 1st time that I install a proxmox server and I did not know the good thing about joining the local partition and local-lvm as a single partition to better use and avoid wasting empty space in the local partition for the isos, so now i have this problem I thought to...
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    Install poxmox on a partition and not on the whole disk?

    I want to test Proxmox and I want to install Proxmox not on the whole disk but on a partition. How do I mount the whole thing as root so that Proxmox is installed only on one partition and does not delete the whole disk?

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