Can't create a pool with unused partition like with PVE

parazitenew

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Hello,

To be able to test replication and HA I had to create a ZFS pool on PVE, so I installed it on a random machine (as second node) that has one disk. I installed PVE on 300 GB and I let 200 GB unallocated. Once in PVE console I used fdisk to create a new partition with the 200GB that I spared during installation, after that I used the new partition to create a ZFS pool. That worked fine.

Now, I'm trying the same thing on PBS. I'm using the same machine, I installed PBS on 50 GB, I let 450GB unallocated. Once in PBS terminal, I used fdisk to create 2 partitions, one for ZFS and the second for Directory. However, I'm not able to create the storages, because unlike PVE, both zfs and diretory are not seeing any unused disk.

Why this worked on PVE but not on PBS ? PVE is able to create storage pools on partitions but not PBS, is this meant to work like that or did I miss something ?
 

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