[SOLVED] Cant create Container LVM

[yswery]

Hi there I get the following error when trying to create a container

 WARNING: You have not turned on protection against thin pools running out of space.
  WARNING: Set activation/thin_pool_autoextend_threshold below 100 to trigger automatic extension of thin pools before they get full.
  Logical volume "vm-255-disk-0" created.
  WARNING: Sum of all thin volume sizes (8.88 TiB) exceeds the size of thin pool pve/data and the size of whole volume group (<2.62 TiB).
mke2fs 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018)
The file /dev/pve/vm-255-disk-0 does not exist and no size was specified.
  Logical volume "vm-255-disk-0" successfully removed
TASK ERROR: unable to create CT 255 - command 'mkfs.ext4 -O mmp -E 'root_owner=0:0' /dev/pve/vm-255-disk-0' failed: exit code 1

This is running latest PVE 6 (BETA) <-- Yes I know
and I also know that I am "over committing" storage space on the LVM

pvesm status shows

Name             Type     Status           Total            Used       Available        %
local             dir     active        98559220        38655404        54854268   39.22%
local-lvm     lvmthin     active      2649657344       662414336      1987243008   25.00%

Does anyone know how I can get about creating containers on this? I dont fully understand the error here

 

[Chris]

Hi,
how exactly are you creating the container? It seems there is no size for the rootfs specified on creation?

The file /dev/pve/vm-255-disk-0 does not exist and no size was specified.

 

[yswery]

Hi @Chris
These are created via the webUI like normal

Here is a short few seconds clip showing me creating that LXC container through the regular proxmox UI:
https://youtu.be/iSlHlUWE6kY

 

[Chris]

Hmm, I cannot reproduce this on my local setup. Can you please post the output of `cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg`. Is this a fresh installation? Do you encounter the same issue when creating a VM disk on local-lvm storage?
Also the output of `vgs -a` and `lvs -a` might be helpful.

 

[yswery]

When making a VM it seems to be able to create the disk ok:

 WARNING: You have not turned on protection against thin pools running out of space.
  WARNING: Set activation/thin_pool_autoextend_threshold below 100 to trigger automatic extension of thin pools before they get full.
  Logical volume "vm-255-disk-0" created.
  WARNING: Sum of all thin volume sizes (<8.87 TiB) exceeds the size of thin pool pve/data and the size of whole volume group (<2.62 TiB).
TASK OK

Picture of VM creation task: https://imgur.com/kvOFdy0
Picture of VM Success: https://imgur.com/1KUUHpe

 

[yswery]

Unsure what or how, but a reboot fixed this issue.

Please note, this was happening for me ONLY using the webui (through API it was fine) I didnt look at the JSON browser request to see what was happening and if the disk size was being sent or not, if it happens again I will look and dig deeper