/etc/pve folder seems to be corrupted

[namen991]

I have a local proxmox server for testing on a debian 12. I tried to make a proxmox cluster with another machine but failed due to misconfiguration in the /etc/hosts file. I tried to recover the standalone mode following some instructions that removed configurations in /etc/corosync/ and /etc/pve/, and it didn't go well because the /etc/pve folder looks corrupted (have no backups of them :/). All the PVE services are running except corosync that is dead because /etc/corosync/corosync.conf is not found

I have tried to reset the pve-cluster service to be again in standalone mode, forcing the deletion of files in /var/lib/pve-cluster and /dev/shm to start from scratch but when I start the pve-cluster service again, the mounted /etc/pve directory always has the same files without storage.cfg and some files and symlinks from 1970 :/ (I tried to unlink and regenerate the symlinks but I have no permissions even as root user). This is what I'm trying:

systemctl stop pve-cluster
pkill -9 pmxcfs
pkill -9 pve-cluster
umount -l /etc/pve

rm -rf /etc/pve
mkdir /etc/pve

rm -rf /var/lib/pve-cluster/*
rm -f /var/lib/pve-cluster/.pmxcfs.lockfile

rm -rf /dev/shm/qb-*
rm -rf /dev/shm/pmxcfs*

reboot
systemctl start pve-cluster




and my current /etc/pve folder has this:

root@debian12:~# tree -a /etc/pve
/etc/pve
├── authkey.pub
├── .clusterlog
├── .debug
├── firewall
├── ha
├── local -> nodes/debian12
├── lxc -> nodes/debian12/lxc
├── mapping
├── .members
├── nodes
│ └── debian12
│ ├── lrm_status
│ ├── lxc
│ ├── openvz
│ ├── priv
│ ├── pve-ssl.key
│ ├── pve-ssl.pem
│ ├── qemu-server
│ └── ssh_known_hosts
├── openvz -> nodes/debian12/openvz
├── priv
│ ├── acme
│ ├── authkey.key
│ ├── authorized_keys
│ ├── lock
│ ├── pve-root-ca.key
│ └── pve-root-ca.srl
├── pve-root-ca.pem
├── pve-www.key
├── qemu-server -> nodes/debian12/qemu-server
├── .rrd
├── sdn
│ └── fabrics
├── .version
├── virtual-guest
├── .vmlist
└── vzdump.cron


root@debian12:~# ls -la /etc/pve
total 14
drwxr-xr-x 2 root www-data 0 Jan 1 1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 154 root root 12288 Aug 29 13:04 ..
-rw-r----- 1 root www-data 451 Aug 29 13:05 authkey.pub
-r--r----- 1 root www-data 1046 Jan 1 1970 .clusterlog
-rw-r----- 1 root www-data 2 Jan 1 1970 .debug
drwxr-xr-x 2 root www-data 0 Aug 29 13:05 firewall
drwxr-xr-x 2 root www-data 0 Aug 29 13:05 ha
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root www-data 0 Jan 1 1970 local -> nodes/debian12
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root www-data 0 Jan 1 1970 lxc -> nodes/debian12/lxc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root www-data 0 Aug 29 13:05 mapping
-r--r----- 1 root www-data 42 Jan 1 1970 .members
drwxr-xr-x 2 root www-data 0 Aug 29 13:05 nodes
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root www-data 0 Jan 1 1970 openvz -> nodes/debian12/openvz
drwx------ 2 root www-data 0 Aug 29 13:05 priv
-rw-r----- 1 root www-data 2074 Aug 29 13:05 pve-root-ca.pem
-rw-r----- 1 root www-data 1704 Aug 29 13:05 pve-www.key
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root www-data 0 Jan 1 1970 qemu-server -> nodes/debian12/qemu-server
-r--r----- 1 root www-data 230 Jan 1 1970 .rrd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root www-data 0 Aug 29 13:05 sdn
-r--r----- 1 root www-data 1134 Jan 1 1970 .version
drwxr-xr-x 2 root www-data 0 Aug 29 13:05 virtual-guest
-r--r----- 1 root www-data 18 Jan 1 1970 .vmlist
-rw-r----- 1 root www-data 119 Aug 29 13:05 vzdump.cron


root@debian12:~# pvecm status
Error: Corosync config '/etc/pve/corosync.conf' does not exist - is this node part of a cluster?

how can I reset the /etc/pve folder to start from scratch?
If I create a storage.cfg manually in /etc/pve, will proxmox use it in the future? (the web GUI shows the local storage where proxmox is installed but I still don't have /etc/pve/storage.cfg file :/)
thanks in advance