Proxmox Install taking up entire drive

[mazer9]

I have a large Raid 10 array (3.6tb array) that I am attempting to install Proxmox 3.4 on. Regardless of what I set the "hdsize" parameter to at install time, the pve VG consumes the remainder of the disk.

I had intended on using a small portion for Root, Swap, and Data, while allocating the unallocated space as a separate lvm partition for VM storage. I've read where this is a bug in the software.

Could someone suggest the best workaround for this? Should I resize the PVE VG in order to recover the space to create the partition?

 

[Phinitris]

Hello,
you can just install Debian Wheezy(Netinstall) and install the proxmox binary packages, as I do.

See: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Wheezy

Best regards
Henry

 

[DirkB]

Did you use the other possible options like maxroot, swapsize, maxvz and did they work as expected?
Maybe the minfree option would do the trick for you, did you try it?

Dirk

 

[mazer9]

Did you use the other possible options like maxroot, swapsize, maxvz and did they work as expected?
Maybe the minfree option would do the trick for you, did you try it?

Dirk

I believe my settings were:

hdsize=180
maxroot=20
swapsize=20
maxvz=15
minfree=20

The max root, swap, and maxvz settings were honored, but the pve vg still took up the entire drive. fdisk could not find any available space. Tried several times with all values filled in.

 

[DirkB]

Looks like you've hit this bug:

https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647

which is still marked as unresolved.

So your remaining options could be:
- follow Henry's tip and use the "debian way"
- try to get an older version and upgrade after installation
- resize the VG after installation

Dirk

 

[fireon]

You can use ZFS instead of. Then you haven't this problem. You can use Datasets after install.