[SOLVED] No storage.cfg after install

[Clander]

Hello everyone.

I am a newbie to Proxmox and I have a question I would like to ask. I have installed proxmox without the ISO, installing debian first and then proxmox because I need a specific partition scheme to be able to boot on my system (HPE microserver gen8).

Everything went fine, I partitioned the host disk with an ext4 partition and a swap partition (and another partition to /boot on the Sd card) leaving the rest unpartitioned to do it later.

The system has installed correctly and everything seems to be working.

My doubts came when I tried to create the LVM pool in the remaining disk space. The GUI did not allow me to do this, since it asked me for a completely empty disk, so I did it in command line, I created a partition with linux LVM type, and I followed the whole process of creating the volume, pool etc...until the partition was functional.

I read I had to register it manually in proxmox so I went to configure the storage.cfg file as the docs says, but to my surprise, the system has none.

I have created one and I have put the configuration of this partition as LVM-thin, only the config for this partition (work perfect), but there is no directory type storage config entry anywhere, in fact as I said there was not even the file, is this normal? where does the initial local directory type storage configuration resides? Thank you very much.

 

[bbgeek17]

yes, this is normal for package install. You forgo most of the automation/wizard when you go that route.
The default settings for "local" storage are:

dir: local
        path /var/lib/vz
        content vztmpl,rootdir,snippets,iso,backup,images
        is_mountpoint no
        shared 0

whether this is suitable for your install is up to you. You can point it anywhere.

Good luck

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[Clander]

yes, this is normal for package install. You forgo most of the automation/wizard when you go that route.
The default settings for "local" storage are:

dir: local
        path /var/lib/vz
        content vztmpl,rootdir,snippets,iso,backup,images
        is_mountpoint no
        shared 0

whether this is suitable for your install is up to you. You can point it anywhere.

Good luck

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Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox

Ok, thanks. I will put it in the file too.