Root Partition Size

[banana999]

My root partition is currently around 60GB, which I think is the default 1/4 of my disk.

It's currently sitting at 6GB used, what is this space mainly used for and how would I go about reducing the size and increasing my local-lvm (thin) storage space for my VMs (which I think is the data volume)?

 

[oguz]

hi,

the local storage is used for holding backups, templates, etc. in the default setup. normally this is under /var/lib/vz/

and in general the root partition is used for pretty much everything which isnt a VM disk. logs, configs, packages cache, other files

60G is already not that much, if you reduce that further you might run into storage issues (like logs filling up the disks or similar)

maybe get another disk if you need more storage?

 

[banana999]

hi,

the local storage is used for holding backups, templates, etc. in the default setup. normally this is under /var/lib/vz/

and in general the root partition is used for pretty much everything which isnt a VM disk. logs, configs, packages cache, other files

60G is already not that much, if you reduce that further you might run into storage issues (like logs filling up the disks or similar)

maybe get another disk if you need more storage?

Hi there, thanks for the reply that was very helpful!

I was just wondering as I've had proxmox running for quite a while and it's only using 6GB, and I have another disk configured as a location for the backups so was wondering if there was a tool for adjusting the sizes?