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Domex123

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Hello
I have a local (pve) 72GB, summary page says
Usage: 93.66% (68.11 GB of 72.73 GB)

Near to full
no backup, no ISO, 2 template 250 MB +-,

I guess I did a mistake sometimes ago, but I don't know where are these data neither what data are in it.
Hope someone can help me.

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bbgeek17

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Hi @rlm42 , welcome to the forum.

What, likely, happened is that your external disk was not mounted when the data was dumped into the mountpoint, filling your root disk instead.
This has happened to more than a few people. Here are several results for google search term "proxmox root full ":

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@bbgeek17 this is the result

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@Impact
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with this command seem here
/dev/mapper/pve-root

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this seems the path
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but I haven't found the 73 GB
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Try to unmount the file systems mounted in /mnt/ and check with gdu / again. You can also try gdu -x / to exclude other mount points.
 
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Impact said:
Try to unmount the file systems mounted in /mnt/ and check with gdu / again
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Correct, that is the main point of all the referenced posts in #3
Doing just du -d1 /mnt (after unmount) is fine - there is no doubt the data is there.

Impact said:
You can also try gdu -x / to exclude other mount points.
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This is not going to help without unmounting first.

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Now go deeper inside /mnt with the arrow keys and see what's in there. Make sure everything is still unmounted. What's a bit more complicated to explain or decide is what to do with the data.
 
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After you unmounted external disks, your screenshot is showing that that "USB-Ext" storage pool is located on a disk that is 72.73GB in size.
That matches exactly your "local" storage pool that is located on your root disk.
The next step is to either examine what is inside /mnt/usb-ext and /mnt/pve/dir01 and save/move it elsewhere. Or just completely delete it.

Next time ensure that your external disks are mounted prior to writing data to the mountpoint.

Make sure you have the following in your /etc/pve/storage.cfg:
--is_mountpoint <string> (default = no)
Assume the given path is an externally managed mountpoint and consider the storage offline if it is not mounted. Using a boolean (yes/no) value serves as a shortcut to using the target path in this field.

https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pvesm.1.html


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Domex123 said:
but are not 72.73 GB bat 41.2 GB
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Your entire root LVM slice/partition is 72.73GB
68.11GB of it is used, which constitutes 93%
41.2GB are backups which were misdirected to a root filesystem instead of external disk
22GB was used by OS and other programs

Either mount your external disk to /tmp/tmpmnt and move all the backup files there, or delete them.


Cheers

Some of the sizing discrepancies are due to GiB vs GB reporting.


PS considering that the backups in question are now almost 6 months old, assuming you are not running in a highly regulated environment with strict data retention requirements, I would go ahead and delete them.

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Hello, sorry fo bothering but I'm too green... I have not uderstood something...

"local (PVE)" is an empty volume but due to, in some way I mapped to a volume 72.73GB in size, it seems full.
It should be /var/lib/vz, but I've not found the data, what data are in it and if I can delete.

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The directory USB_Ext is a USB disk 2 TB where I save my VMs' backup.

dir01 is an additional disk I added to create a CT volume for a VM that needed space
 
Domex123 said:
"local (PVE)" is an empty volume but due to, in some way I mapped to a volume 72.73GB in size, it seems full.
It should be /var/lib/vz, but I've not found the data, what data are in it and if I can delete.
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The local directory storage is indeed /var/lib/vz. But this is a folder on the Proxmox installation pve-root or /, which is why they share the available space.
 
bbgeek17 said:
Your entire root LVM slice/partition is 72.73GB
68.11GB of it is used, which constitutes 93%
41.2GB are backups which were misdirected to a root filesystem instead of external disk
22GB was used by OS and other programs

Either mount your external disk to /tmp/tmpmnt and move all the backup files there, or delete them.


Cheers

Some of the sizing discrepancies are due to GiB vs GB reporting.


PS considering that the backups in question are now almost 6 months old, assuming you are not running in a highly regulated environment with strict data retention requirements, I would go ahead and delete them.

Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox
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Sorry for late replay. Many thanks for your @bbgeek17 and @Impact help.
Just to help someone else, I would like to confirm that deleting the old backups is the solution. Now the space is ok
 
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