Increase Partition size

[Borotes]

Hi guys,

I recently bought a server on which I run Proxmox for virtualization.

First I installed Proxmox directly on my 1TB SSD, but then realized that I was losing almost 100GB for the "local" partition, but I wanted to use the fast SSD storage for the "local-lvm", i.e. the VMs themselves, and save the ISOs etc. on another server.

Now I have reinstalled Proxmox and assigned 31GB of storage to it in the installation screen. Accordingly, I should now have just about 900GB of unallocated storage. I've already installed GParted, but I just can't manage to expand the “local-lvm” disk.

I could really use some help with that.

Best regards
Borotes

 

[ph0x]

Since the lvm already exists there is no need to fiddle with the partition table anymore.
Just use the respective lv tools (lvresize).

Don't forget to adjust the metadata accordingly: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/LVM2#Configuration_2

The metadata pool is already 1G big, but for roughly 1TB of data I personally would ge for 10GB metadata, without any further source to back this.