Partitioning recommendations for server installation

GuyInCorner

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I'm installing Proxmox on a server. I have two 200G drives mirrored for Proxmox itself and another set of drives in Raid 5 that I'll add as LVM-Thin for storing the VMs.

I've noticed that when I install Proxmox it automatically assumes that the installation drive will be storing VMs so it partitions things up so as to save a useless tiny amount of space for this. I don't need any space to store VMs on the mirrored drives from which I'm running Proxmox.

So, my question is, how should I fill out the following options during installation so that Proxmox has the maximum amount of space available for snapshots and local backups etc. and not wasting space on a tiny LVM-Thin partition?

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