Multiple HDDs and Formatting

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Hello All!
I have just installed Proxmox 1.8 and I would like to use a total of three hard drives with my system. I have found the following instructions to use the hard drives:
First create the physical volume (pv):

proxmox-ve:~# pvcreate /dev/sdb1
Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created
proxmox-ve:~#

Second, create a volume group (vg):

proxmox-ve:~# vgcreate usb-stick /dev/sdb1 Volume group "usb-stick" successfully createdproxmox-ve:~#

And finally: Add the LVM Group to the storage list via the web interface:

"Storage name: usb", "Base storage: Existing volume groups", "Volume Group Name: usb-stick"
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I fully understand those instructions, but I need to know how I should format the hard drives. What should I format the two extra hard drives as? I will be using one in whole for a file server KVM, not sure about the other yet. Probably just more VMs.

Thanks!
Ross Lindsay
 
No need to format. Just attach the LVM group to proxmox via gui, it will build logical volumes for your vm's in there automatically when you create a vm (and they will be formated by the guest system).
Regards, Holger
 
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