Mounted volume/disk total showing only half the actual space

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I am new to Proxmox, love it BTW.

I added a 1TB NVME to the server. Space is accurate via lsblk and df -h, also under Storage in the GUI. However once mounted/added it is only reporting 488GB of total space. Not sure what I did wrong but I would love some guidance. Here are a few screenshots

This is the article I followed to get the storage added. Worked great, no errors https://nodetwelve.com/add-storage-drive-to-proxmox-7/


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Here you go
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dir: NVME
path /mnt/proxmox
content snippets,backup,vztmpl,images
prune-backups keep-all=1
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This is not the right location of your new 1tb nvme...
The new 1tb nvme location is /mnt/nvmeprox

You can configure properly from web ui in Datacenter > Storage
 
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This is not the right location of your new 1tb nvme...
The new 1tb nvme location is /mnt/nvmeprox

You can configure properly from web ui in Datacenter > Storage
Ok, when I added it the second time it worked!!! So if I was using the wrong mount path, how in the world did it show up at all? Even being half the capacity, shouldn't it have thrown an error or something?
 
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Huh, ok so I removed it and added it back in using the /mnt/nvmeprox path. Came back w/o issue but the size is still wrong. I know I am doing something so stupid. I just can't figure out what it is!

https://www.screencast.com/t/4FC5yEuZ

It was showing the capacity of pve-root ;)
haha! Well now that makes sense. I've spent so many years working with Vmware and know it so well, this is like going back to square one with a hypervisor! Thanks again for the help :)
 

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