Remove local-lvm and add space to local?

[j.gelissen]

Hi,
quick question regarding the default Proxmox setup with local and local-lvm.

On a productive PVE host, local (root) is quite small, while local-lvm exists but is currently unused (all VM disks are located on other storages).

The idea would be:

• remove local-lvm
• add the freed space to local / pve-root
• do this on a running system

Questions:

• any technical concerns if local-lvm is really unused?
• known Proxmox-specific pitfalls?
• would you consider this a reasonable temporary solution?

Long term, we are aware that a larger system disk would be the cleaner approach.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Impact]

If you don't use local-lvm for anything then it's totally fine to remove it and it's trivial to do too

lvremove pve/data
lvresize -r -l +99%FREE pve/root
pvesm remove local-lvm

 

[j.gelissen]

If you don't use local-lvm for anything then it's totally fine to remove it and it's trivial to do too

lvremove pve/data
lvresize -r -l +99%FREE pve/root
pvesm remove local-lvm

Thanks, but it’s better to disable the local LVM via the GUI so it isn’t deleted for all PVE nodes.