I just test installed Proxmox v4.2 and the partition/drive layout is not really what I wanted.
I have a pair of drives in RAID 1 that I wanted the basic OS to go on with another 6 in RAID 6 which I wanted to put the VMs and ISO etc on (I have no 'speed' requirements and this layout will be rampantly fast enough and suits me for now)
The basic install divides up the RAID 1 into a 'local' partition on /var/lib/vz and another LVM partition for VMs.
So the space for ISOs is very limited as the system tries to reserve what space it can for VMs as it thinks it has to try and cram everything on the first 'drive'.
I really wanted a fairly simple install with the base OS to go on the RAID 1 and the RAID 6 mounted at var/lib/vz for VMs and ISOs. I may add a storage array at some point and can then add that for more VMs etc.
I can then thrash or trash the OS any time without destroying the other volumes.
I guess I could either
Do a Debian netinstall and partition as I want.
Unmount the current LVM and the 'local partition', add the RAID 6 to /var/lib/vz and then remove the LVM and 'local' partition and enlarge the boot partition.
Any ideas or suggestions on the best way to do this ?
B. Rgds
John
I have a pair of drives in RAID 1 that I wanted the basic OS to go on with another 6 in RAID 6 which I wanted to put the VMs and ISO etc on (I have no 'speed' requirements and this layout will be rampantly fast enough and suits me for now)
The basic install divides up the RAID 1 into a 'local' partition on /var/lib/vz and another LVM partition for VMs.
So the space for ISOs is very limited as the system tries to reserve what space it can for VMs as it thinks it has to try and cram everything on the first 'drive'.
I really wanted a fairly simple install with the base OS to go on the RAID 1 and the RAID 6 mounted at var/lib/vz for VMs and ISOs. I may add a storage array at some point and can then add that for more VMs etc.
I can then thrash or trash the OS any time without destroying the other volumes.
I guess I could either
Do a Debian netinstall and partition as I want.
Unmount the current LVM and the 'local partition', add the RAID 6 to /var/lib/vz and then remove the LVM and 'local' partition and enlarge the boot partition.
Any ideas or suggestions on the best way to do this ?
B. Rgds
John
