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    [SOLVED] Vm can't create any partition

    Everytime I tried to install Debian or Ubuntu server in a vm (that would be my first one) everything goes well until it's time to write the partition unto the disk and create the filesystem (even with the whole disk on ext4 or ext4 +swap) And on debian it says "The ext4 file system creation in...
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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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    Boot Laufwerk verkleinern oder neuen Node erstellen?

    Guten Abend :) ich habe so das kleine "Problem" dass ich in meinem Cluster einen Node habe, wo Proxmox noch auf einer alten 250GB HDD installiert wurde und das möchte ich gerne langsam ändern. Früher bereits gemacht von einer kleinen auf einer größeren Platte mittels Acronis. Jetzt hab ich...
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    TASK ERROR: command "blkid" "-o" "export" "/dev/sda1" failed - status code: 2 - no error message

    I've just installed PBS and I'm trying to create a Directory on my 10TB Seagate IronWolf drive. Unfortunately, right when I'm issuing the create command, this happens: TASK ERROR: command "blkid" "-o" "export" "/dev/sda1" failed - status code: 2 - no error message Obviously, if I look into...
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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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    Physical partition in VM - how? where?

    Hello, I apologize in advance if it has already been somewhere, I have been looking for a solution for several days - also on this forum and probably a stupid simple problem but I can not find a solution anywhere ... sorry for that I have proxmox ve 6.3 installed on debian 10.7 and I have an...
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    [SOLVED] Zweite Festplatte einbinden und mounten

    Hallo zusammen, ich kenne mich mit Proxmox noch nicht so gut aus und benötige deshalb etwas Hilfe. Ich möchte gerne meine zweite NVMe, die momentan nicht verwendet wird, gerne als Backup Storage nutzen. Nur habe ich leider keine Ahnung, wie ich das genau mache. Eine wirklich gute Anleitung die...
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    How do I properly prepare a Cloud-Init image for CentOS 7?

    Hello everyone, I'm struggling to properly prepare a CentOS 7 Cloud-Init image, there doesn't seem to be an already prepared image like on Ubuntu and many tutorial are extremely different from each other and I just can't find a way to do this... I've searched for so many tutorials, yet none of...
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    Disk Full - Recovering Space on Root (Proxmox 6.2)

    When trying to patch a kernel an error message always comes up saying root partition is out of space. Is there a way to safely recover space by clearing any unneeded files? Up until now I have always deleted the default lvm and extended the root partition but I’m wondering if there is a more...
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    [SOLVED] LVM Partition als Backupstorage verwenden

    Hallo, ich habe eine Partition (sda3), die bei Proxmox unter Disks -> LVM als newdrive angezeigt wird. Ich würde gerne diesen Storage als Storage für Backups verwenden, was muss ich genau machen? Ein Directory mit dem newdrive lässt sich leider nicht erstellen. Danke im Voraus!
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    Install Proxmox on a specific partition

    Hi Community, im pretty new to Proxmox and trying to install Proxmox 7 VE for my first time. Im jsut to dumb to find the option, where i can choose the partition for the proxmox install. I only found an option, where i have to enter thedisk size and the fs type. Thanks in Advance!
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    Shrink / Reduce a volume with an LVM-XFS partition

    I need to shrink a Proxmox-KVM raw volume with LVM and XFS. Now, XFS doesn't support shrinking as such. It's possible to hack around this with xfsdump and xfsrestore, but this would require 250G data to be copied offline, and that's more downtime than I like. Whats the alternative? I was...
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    [SOLVED] Data isn't shown on node ui

    Data isn't shown on node sunfish ui. Data is a SSD and it's size should be around 350GB root@sunfish:~# root@sunfish:~# pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/nvme0n1 lvmthin lvm2 a-- <953.87g 124.00m /dev/sda3 pve lvm2 a-- <476.44g <16.00g root@sunfish:~# vgs VG...
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    Unötige Partition?

    Disk /dev/mapper/pve-vm--100--disk--0: 32 GiB, 34359738368 bytes, 67108864 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 65536 bytes / 65536 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xc05eab7d Device...
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    [SOLVED] ZFS: Partition X does not start on physical sector boundary

    fdisk -l How do I identify which guest is using /dev/zd32 (I already have a suspect) ? And should I readjust the start sector? If yes, how? TIA
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    [SOLVED] ceph OSD creation using a partition

    hi all. i need help in creating osd in my partition. in our server, we are provided with 2 nvme drive in raid-1. this is the partition: root@XXXXXXXX:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT nvme1n1 259:0 0 1.8T 0 disk ├─nvme1n1p1 259:1 0 511M 0 part...
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    [SOLVED] Use same hard drive for Proxmox and data partition

    Hi, I have Proxmox VE installed on a ZOTAC CI327 with a 1 TB Samsung SSD. I assigned 80 GB to Proxmox, and left the rest. Then, I used a GParted Live USB drive to create a partition for the remaining 851.5GB (ext4). The structure looks as follows: root@pve:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN...
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    problem partionning and zfs/nfs etc

    First, sorry for my english..(I m french) I have a 2x2 TB server on So You Start. I want use all my space, so no raid. (Or raid software to see only one disk, even I know i ts not offical) To do that : - one lxc for plex 50gb - one lxc for torrent 100gb - one lxc for a webserver 100gb - one lxc...
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    Proxmox Partitionning help

    Hi I'm new to Proxmox and I was hoping to get some recommendations on how 'best' to partition Proxmox I have a dedicated server with these basic specs: 16 GB Ram 1 x 2TB HDD The use case will be web hosting and plex server. My question is: Do you have any suggestions on how to then...
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    unable to mount multidisk LVM as usable

    Background I have 5 2TB disks. I have installed proxmox and am able to create new virtual machines and run them. The ability to successfully create and use VMs lead me to believe I installed everything correctly. I have run through the LVM documentation as well as the proxmox documentation and...

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