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    [CLOSED] How to work with file .img containing multiple partitions?

    Hello everyone, I must preface this by saying I only have basic knowledge on how virtualization tools work, and I'm trying Proxmox for the first time. After setting up some virtual machines, I now want to create one to perform restore of a my_file.img image file. So, I tried to follow this...
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    Missing ZFS partitions after reboot

    Hello! I created a new ZFS RAID1 pool using two drives, after which I migrated some disks of some KVM machines and restarted the node. Although all the VMs were stopped, the server did not close, as I had run the command and forced it to stop (nothing happens in the console, there was only a...
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    [SOLVED] ZFS: How to Restart/Reload Without Rebooting

    In an up to date Proxmox install, I have root on RAID1. There is another partition on ZFS, which has two VMs. There is some free space in a deleted partition adjacent to partition 5, the ZFS partition (BTW across sda/sdb/sdc/sde), where partition 4 used to be. I am trying to get partition 5 to...
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    [SOLVED] Replacing a failing hard drive

    Hello everybody, I'm sorry, this is my first post, so please don't blame me if I'm missing some piece of information. Will be glad to provide you with all the required info useful to resolve my case. I've installed Proxmox on a mini PC, on a M.2 sata 256GB hard drive, which is the only attached...
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    [SOLVED] How to mount a hard drive without format

    Hello, im ebbe and im kinda new to proxmox. i', trying to mout 2 hdd's (2tb) so i can use them in my windows server vm. there is already a lot of data on them so i dotn want to format them. right now they are listed in disks as device type usage /dev/sdb...
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    Help expanding root ZFS rpool partition (self.Proxmox)

    One of my the drives in my mirrored root ZFS rpool died on me. I have swapped both of original drives with new larger ones. Everything went smoothly and things are running great however I am struggling with expanding the partition to utilize the space of the larger drives. I used "zpool set...
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    How do I prepare a proper cloud-init image for CentOS 7?

    Hello, I want to prepare a cloud-init image, which is able to resize (grow) the HDD space and partitions. While it can grow the actual HDD space, it is not able to grow the partition.. I'm not sure, what I'm doing wrong... Is there a good tutorial about preparing a CentOS Cloud-Init image?
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    Moving EFI and BIOS partitions to new Disk

    Hi All, I have a need to move the boot disk to new media, My actual VMStore is on separate disks and will be left alone accordingly, So far in my test environment i have: Added new disk, added new disk to pve lvm vgroup, vgreduce (original boot disk) pvremove (original boot disk) mount new...
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    Passing a disk through to an OpenMediaVault VM

    Hi, I have an OMV setup as a QEMU virtual machine in Proxmox. I want to pass through a physical disk to the virtual machine. I have the command to do that:- qm set 104 -virtio2 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD6003FFBX-68MU3N0_V8G3xxxx I should also say that I created 2 partitions first on this...
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    Can't add new drive - shows as "partitions" under Usage

    Hi there. Was hoping someone can help with what I thought would be a fairly simple operation: I was planning on adding some additional storage to my single node PVE system, so bought a couple of SSDs and plugged them in. I was planning on adding both as a new mirrored ZFS pool. However, when I...
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    Ideal LVM setup?

    I forgot about the easy of use of Proxmox when I was looking to make my laptop into a virtual host. I was getting ready to install PM5 when I started to wonder about how to optimally setup my 2TB SATA drive.
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    How to repartition Debian install for Proxmox LVM?

    Hello, Debian stretch (9) 64bit was installed for me and i would like to install Proxmox VE on it according to this tutorial: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Stretch First issue i have as a a Linux partitioning, LVM and Proxmox newbie following that tutorial is: i do...
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    [SOLVED] VE v5.0 Beta2 Install Freezes @ "create partitions 0%"

    I'm attempting to install Proxmox VE 5.0 Beta2 onto an NVMe SSD from a USB installer. I followed the instructions and used etcher.io to flash the USB. The installer booted right up, and I went through the initial setup, but it immediately freezes at "create partitions 0%" when it gets to that...

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