Disk partitions on a single ssd installation

HeneryH

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I've been using my pve-1 and pve-2 for a few months and learning a lot. They both have a small ssd for the os, etc and a second larger ssd for VMS. The idea here (I read) was to make sure that overallocation of VMs does not whack the root os partition. I used zfs raid0 for these installs. Having a great time...

I now have a third machine that only has a single ssd in it. Due to the tutorials I am following for a separate topic, this machine I used ext4 formatting.

The problem I am having is that of my 500GB disk it created a local partition of 100GB but then my remaining 400GB is nowhere to be found.

The local-zfs partition is not usable to me which I guess makes sense since I installed ext4. But I don't see the remaining 400GB anywhere.

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Kind of a noob challenge. Any suggestions? I suppose I should go back to my pve-1 and pve-2 to see if those OS disks are being limited to 100GB the same way this one is.
 
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I think on this machine I used ext4 formatting rather than zfs because I wanted to play with some passthrough features where the demos I saw said to use ext4.

I see this full 500GB in my LVM info. Which is good.

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But in my usable volumes when creating new images I don't see any available volume to use and my local(pve-3) is only 100GB.
 
Here is it, but how can I use it???

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Here i am trying to restore a backup to pve-3 and there is no available storage location...

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