A adamb Famous Member Proxmox Subscriber Mar 1, 2012 1,329 77 113 Jun 13, 2023 #1 Does anyone know of a easy way to have the installer use normal LVM instead of LVM-Thin?
G _gabriel Renowned Member Proxmox Subscriber Mar 30, 2021 1,695 387 93 France Jun 13, 2023 #2 you can set maxvz to 0 within installer. No LVM-thin will be created. edit: to use file based qcow2 on ext4, you can resize local-lvm volume to 100% size of the disk with : lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/pve/root ; resize2fs /dev/mapper/pve-root Last edited: Jun 13, 2023 Reactions: adamb
you can set maxvz to 0 within installer. No LVM-thin will be created. edit: to use file based qcow2 on ext4, you can resize local-lvm volume to 100% size of the disk with : lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/pve/root ; resize2fs /dev/mapper/pve-root
LnxBil Distinguished Member Feb 21, 2015 9,726 1,906 273 Saarland, Germany Jun 13, 2023 #3 _gabriel said: you can set maxvz to 0 within installer. No LVM-thin will be created. Click to expand... That is a good idea! _gabriel said: Then you can resize local-lvm volume to 100% size of the disk with : lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/pve/root ; resize2fs /dev/mapper/pve-root Click to expand... Yet then you would have no useful LVM at all, because the volume group is already exhausted. Reactions: adamb
_gabriel said: you can set maxvz to 0 within installer. No LVM-thin will be created. Click to expand... That is a good idea! _gabriel said: Then you can resize local-lvm volume to 100% size of the disk with : lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/pve/root ; resize2fs /dev/mapper/pve-root Click to expand... Yet then you would have no useful LVM at all, because the volume group is already exhausted.
A adamb Famous Member Proxmox Subscriber Mar 1, 2012 1,329 77 113 Jun 13, 2023 #4 Maxvz 0 was a great idea. Then I simply add the pve VG as LVM storage and we are in business.