[SOLVED] PBS Storage Issue

zuber

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Hi, does anyone have an idea how I can use the sda disk for storage? The entire system is installed on sdb, and that's where backups accumulate, but I would also like to use sda. I would appreciate your help and maybe an explanation why sda3 has 3.5TB but only slightly over 100GB is being used.
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Hey,

what is on sda? Looks like it might be an old PVE installation, if you don't need that anymore you can select /dev/sda and then click "Wipe disk", after that you can select it under "Directory" when clicking "Create: Directory", there you can select to use it as a new datastore.
 
looks like the VG is active, you can deactivate it with
Code:
vgchange -a n <VG_NAME>
you get the name using vgs, it should just be pve, but just to be sure check with vgs. Then wiping it should work.
 

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