Proxmox Partitionning help

[Virusider]

Hi

I'm new to Proxmox and I was hoping to get some recommendations on how 'best' to partition Proxmox

I have a dedicated server with these basic specs:

16 GB Ram
1 x 2TB HDD

The use case will be web hosting and plex server.

My question is:

Do you have any suggestions on how to then divide up the space?

I plan on storing ISO's and doing local backups to the HDD.

Thanks in advance!

Virusider.

 

[Bueddy]

Hello,
I am new to Proxmox too, but a fromer linux admin, so some experiance from there.

The Question is how do you want to mange your storage? Do you plan to use ZFS or not?
I am running a Node with 500GB SSD on LVM/ext4 which provides a lot of flexebiltiy and allow growing filesystems. My setup like this:

sda                            8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk
├─sda1                         8:1    0     1M  0 part
├─sda2                         8:2    0   256M  0 part /boot/efi
└─sda3                         8:3    0 465.5G  0 part
  ├─pve-swap                 253:0    0     4G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
  ├─pve-root                 253:1    0     6G  0 lvm  /
  ├─pve-vmstor               253:2    0    32G  0 lvm  /vmstor
  ├─pve-data_tmeta           253:6    0    64M  0 lvm
  │ └─pve-data-tpool         253:8    0   100G  0 lvm
  │   └─pve-data             253:9    0   100G  0 lvm
  └─pve-data_tdata           253:7    0   100G  0 lvm
    └─pve-data-tpool         253:8    0   100G  0 lvm

All Disks are LVM (pve-data build by the installer) either LVM-thin or static.
The /vmstor is used for ISO,Container Images and Dumps.

Hope this helps.

 

[Virusider]

Hello and thanks for your answer

(Sorry for the level of my English)
So it helps me a little but not so much. Do we make partitions to improve security or to make it better "tidy"?

I go through Kimsufi and it offers either a custom installation (Manage partition) or a basic installation, what do you recommend?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Bueddy]

That looks like a hoster right? I cannot tell how the final setup will look like. Maybe try both and check what fits your needs the most.

The Disk/Partition Layout ist just to have a clean and Tidy Setup.
I would use either ZFS or an LVM Setup for felxiblity.