Can't add new drive - shows as "partitions" under Usage

[Davidoff]

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 go to "disks" in the GUI, one of the SSDs shows "partitions" under Usage. But when I check that same disk in fdisk, there are definitely no partitions on that SSD - it's brand new. The other one is fine, and shows "No" under Usage.

The problem with the one that shows "partitions" is that when I go to ZFS (under Disks in the GUI), it only shows one of the SSDs as being available. The one that shows "partitions" does not show up. In addition, I can't Initialize GPT on that drive.

Not really sure what to do to enable usage of this drive with Proxmox. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

 

[Davidoff]

Managed to figure this out. Even though fdisk didn't show any partitions, lsblk seemed to indicate that there was in fact a partition for about half the space of the drive. As I wasn't able to delete it, I just decided to create a new empty GPT partition table using fdisk. That seemed to do the trick and I was then able to create the ZFS mirror.

 

[ErkDog]

This helped me today too

 

[aldo80st]

Managed to figure this out. Even though fdisk didn't show any partitions, lsblk seemed to indicate that there was in fact a partition for about half the space of the drive. As I wasn't able to delete it, I just decided to create a new empty GPT partition table using fdisk. That seemed to do the trick and I was then able to create the ZFS mirror.

It worked for me too, thanks!