Change location of ISO or create new volume ?

[agit]

Hi There,

as a complete noob regarding linux in general and proxmox in particular, i was wondering how i could change my current (default) storage setup.

Current situatuion:



Currently the ISO Images and VM Disks are stored in de default location on local. The diskspace is not large enough to store all the ISO's etc. So i wanted to change the location the the much larger local-lvm drive.

However, if i edit the content of that drive, i can not choose ISO or any of the other types. So i suppose the drive type is wrong ?

What do i need to do to make use of that drive for all my storage types without adding extra storage (internal, usb etc.) ?

Any guidance would be very much appreciated.

 

[Kingneutron]

Local-lvm is lvm-thin, it is Block storage and cannot be used for backups or ISOs.

You could try LVM resizing if you need more root space, but it's a bit of a pain (and you should not even attempt it without a full backup.)

If you have another disk that you can attach to the system and define that as storage, you can put the ISOs there. Even a usb thumbdrive of sufficient size/speed may suffice, as it will be mostly read-only. (You should mount it with noatime option in fstab)

Otherwise, if you have a Samba shared drive (even with a directory structure) you could utilize my script to soft-symlink the ISOs and just use them over the network. This is, I think, a decent solution as you would have (1) source for ISOs and can use them anywhere.

https://github.com/kneutron/ansitest/blob/master/proxmox/symlink-samba-isos.sh