Linux help. Why is my drive so small in Proxmox?

[cdsJerry]

I'm a Windows guy (but I'm getting over it every day). I have a Proxmox box 6.1-3 with a RAID drive and a SATA drive. My plan is just to use the SATA to store ISO images and intra-day backups of a couple VMs. The SATA is only a 1.8GB drive.

However Proxmox says the SATA drive is only 93.99GB, or half the size. And indeed when I tried to copy a VM to it that should have fit, I was told there wasn't enough space.

Is there a reason a drive would be 1/2 size in Proxmox? I thought maybe it was a partition issue but it looks right (to my eyes anyway).

Can anyone give me an idea of how to use the entire drive?
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root@pve:~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 7.3T 0 disk
ââsda1 8:1 0 1007K 0 part
ââsda2 8:2 0 512M 0 part
ââsda3 8:3 0 7.3T 0 part
ââpve-swap 253:0 0 8G 0 lvm [SWAP]
ââpve-root 253:1 0 96G 0 lvm /
ââpve-data_tmeta 253:2 0 15.8G 0 lvm
â ââpve-data-tpool 253:4 0 7.1T 0 lvm
â ââpve-data 253:5 0 7.1T 0 lvm
â ââpve-vm--101--disk--0 253:6 0 500G 0 lvm
â ââpve-vm--102--disk--0 253:7 0 700G 0 lvm
â ââpve-vm--102--disk--1 253:8 0 700G 0 lvm
â ââpve-vm--100--disk--0 253:9 0 700G 0 lvm
â ââpve-vm--102--disk--2 253:10 0 700G 0 lvm
ââpve-data_tdata 253:3 0 7.1T 0 lvm
ââpve-data-tpool 253:4 0 7.1T 0 lvm
ââpve-data 253:5 0 7.1T 0 lvm
ââpve-vm--101--disk--0 253:6 0 500G 0 lvm
ââpve-vm--102--disk--0 253:7 0 700G 0 lvm
ââpve-vm--102--disk--1 253:8 0 700G 0 lvm
ââpve-vm--100--disk--0 253:9 0 700G 0 lvm
ââpve-vm--102--disk--2 253:10 0 700G 0 lvm
sdb 8:16 0 1.8T 0 disk
ââsdb1 8:17 0 1.8T 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
</code>

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

How did you configure the SATA drive inside PVE?

It seems the 1.8 TB sata drive is /dev/sdb - which from the lsblk output seems completely unused (if possible please post the output inside code-tags the next time - makes it easier to get the information)

I guess the 93.99GB is the remaining free space of your '/' drive (/dev/pve/root)

Please also check out the reference documentation - it should provide some general insight: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesm.html

I hope this helps!

 

[cdsJerry]

I followed a step-by-step instruction I found online to format the drive, partition it, and mount it. Afterward I inserted the Proxmox VE ISO drive into the DVD drive and booted up the machine.

Obviously I did something wrong. How hard is it going to be to try again without needing to reinstall Proxmox again? Can I just keep trying at a command prompt and Proxmox will see the change or do I need to figure out the pvesm tool in order to do it?