Lost Partition?

[o1dscratch]

I've been searching the forums and googling for hours... I need help.

The snips below show drive sda (particular partition /dev/sda3) has pretty much 2 tb of space in an unmounted drive I thought this was where pve was located, but that directory is only accounts for 103GB.

I want access to this space. How do I go about that without screwing up what pve needs?

I am clustered if that makes a difference (don't see why it would).

No problem using CLI, just really don't want to spend my afternoon rebuilding this server.

 

[bbgeek17]

It possibly sounds like you just want to create some LVM slices:
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/creating-logical-volumes

If you are more visual learner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdOyTNoVnY4

None of this is PVE specific. Note that you only want "slices" if you want to permanently mount them. If you want to let PVE manage LVM for VM creation, then you only need a Volume Group (which you possibly already have), and then point PVE at it.

Cheers

You should run these 3 commands to get better idea of what you have:
pvs
vgs
lvs

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[gfngfn256]

That space is most likely already available as an LVM - it is unmounted as it lacks an FS & is block storage.

I imagine that PVE is in fact installed on that drive - & the 100GB you see is the local storage (PVE) which is a slice of that LVM, in an LV called root that has an FS (ext4 usually) & is mounted.
The remaining "space" contains another LV called data (LVM-thin) & is available for any block storage & is called local-lvm in PVE.

bbgeek17 has given you the available commands to actually check your current config.

My advice is - search these forums & general web to get a better understanding of the above hierarchy in general & specifically in PVE, & only then decide what you need & what you want to change, if you want to avoid this:

just really don't want to spend my afternoon rebuilding this server

Good luck & happy Proxmoxing!