Proxmox storage LVM full

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I show free space in my pve volume group, but I can not use all free space in storage "local-lvm".


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# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name data-sdc System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 128 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 18 Open LV 2 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 931.48 GiB PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 238459 Alloc PE / Size 238429 / 931.36 GiB Free PE / Size 30 / 120.00 MiB VG UUID cTsoLf-ObRi-IZfv-can6-QtLM-0js7-MiPP0h --- Volume group --- VG Name pve System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 2 Metadata Sequence No 223 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 32 Open LV 11 Max PV 0 Cur PV 2 Act PV 2 VG Size <4.37 TiB PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 1144448 Alloc PE / Size 284104 / 1.08 TiB Free PE / Size 860344 / 3.28 TiB VG UUID c1hkFj-cqQS-GdIb-VqJo-YHCz-qnpe-zc6xsn



LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert data-sdc data-sdc twi-aotz-- 912.73g 23.35 1.31 [data-sdc_tdata] data-sdc Twi-ao---- 912.73g [data-sdc_tmeta] data-sdc ewi-ao---- <9.32g [lvol0_pmspare] data-sdc ewi------- <9.32g vm-106-disk-0 data-sdc Vwi-aotz-- 22.00g data-sdc 91.35 vm-112-disk-0 data-sdc Vwi-a-tz-- <2.20g data-sdc 82.77 ... data pve twi-aotzD- 997.53g 100.00 58.00 [data_tdata] pve Twi-ao---- 997.53g [data_tmeta] pve ewi-ao---- 128.00m [lvol0_pmspare] pve ewi------- 128.00m root pve -wi-ao---- 96.00g swap pve -wi-ao---- 16.00g vm-100-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 120.00g data 90.87 vm-100-disk-1 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 170.00g data 5.76 ...

My relevant storage.cfg
dir: local path /var/lib/vz content backup,iso,images,vztmpl prune-backups keep-last=2 shared 0 lvmthin: local-lvm thinpool data vgname pve content images,rootdir lvmthin: data-sdc thinpool data-sdc vgname data-sdc content images,rootdir

How I configure it to get 3,28 TB disk free space ?
Thank you
 
I already run this command:

lvresize --poolmetadatasize +3GB /dev/pve/data

I get error message in my proxmox host:
Oct 31 15:25:07 siginjai lvm[948]: No longer monitoring thin pool pve-data-tpool. Oct 31 15:25:07 siginjai lvm[948]: Monitoring thin pool pve-data-tpool. Oct 31 15:25:17 siginjai lvm[948]: WARNING: Thin pool pve-data-tpool data is now 100.00% full. Oct 31 15:26:08 siginjai kernel: [458837.210278] device-mapper: thin: 253:25: switching pool to out-of-data-space (error IO) mode Oct 31 15:26:17 siginjai kernel: [458846.580157] device-mapper: thin: 253:25: switching pool to write mode

and Now filesystem in VM goes into readonly mode
 
I am sorry that I am very panic..

I only repeat this command several times
# lvresize --poolmetadatasize +10M /dev/pve/data

this command solve my problem
# lvextend -L+100G pve/data
 
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I am sorry that I am very panic..

I only repeat this command several times
# lvresize --poolmetadatasize +10M /dev/pve/data

this command solve my problem
# lvextend -L+100G pve/data
Okay, everything alright now? The first command only extends the metadata pool of the LV by 10 MB so this might cause the problems with the metadatapool being full since 10M is not very much. Did you manage to extend the data volume to 3.28 TiB?
 
Everything is fine. I already extend the lvm pool to 3.5 TB. The underlying disk is 2.4 TB RAID 10 + 2.4TB RAID1 disk. The raw capacity is about 4.8 TB.
data pve twi-aotz-- 3.52t 29.62 1.96 [data_tdata] pve Twi-ao---- 3.52t [data_tmeta] pve ewi-ao---- <4.14g [lvol0_pmspare] pve ewi------- 128.00m