Proxmox UI DiskSpace wrong info

[paulisevil1]

Hi Everyone,

My sys had 2 disks 1 SSD 256 GB, and 1 HDD 1 TB,

I have installed proxmox on SSD, and mounted HDD(proxmox/Disks/Directory)



Even though my HDD have more space


Proxmox UI shows this

I followed this ->

How to Add a Storage Drive to Proxmox (works with Proxmox 7)​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATuUBocesmA

is there any solution to this ?

 

[_gabriel]

you've choose "raw" vm disk , so allocated disk size is reserved.
you need use qcow2 to see "used" size.
or event better, a lvm-thin datastore.

 

[paulisevil1]

you've choose "raw" vm disk , so allocated disk size is reserved.
you need use qcow2 to see "used" size.
or event better, a lvm-thin datastore.

ok is there any way to fix this now ? without formatting disk ?

 

[_gabriel]

First solution with qcow2 , you can move you raw vm disk to qcow2 format from hw option of the VM, Data will be cloned.

Second solution with lvm-thin , will require backup vm on another disk / format datastore disk then restore vm

 

[paulisevil1]

thanks for reply gabriel, Would u please explain first solution in detail, I would like to proceed with that.

 

[paulisevil1]

Will renaming it from .raw to .qcow2 will fix it ?

 

[paulisevil1]

This is the main reason I need to fix this as u can see available space is inaccurate

 

[_gabriel]

of course renaming do nothing.

screeshots are not required, we know the GUI.

Steps needed for your question is a good training and learning for beginners.
Try & See , We can't write a step by step for that.
Do backup on exernal disk if data is valuable , because wrong playing with storage can loss data.

 

[paulisevil1]

thanks @_gabriel for your time.

I would request someone from proxmox provide me step by steps.