Running out of space on drive(pve)

greinsch

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I have three logical drives. Zpool1(pve) on ZFS at 12TB, another local (pve) (60G), and local-lvm (150GB). The local)pve) has the ISO images directory on it. It has gradually started to fill up to the point that I can't fit anymore ISO's on it. The local-lvm is wide open with the 150GB. What is filling up toe local(pve) drive so fast?

How can I change the location to upload ISO's?

Runing on Poweredge T320 8/16 core 54GB ram with boot off on 240GB SSD

I am new to Proxmox. Hope this is not a dumb question.
 
"local" is directory type storage, ie file storage - it is suitable for ISO placement.
"local-lvm" is a block type storage, its suitable for raw images, not for ISO.

To find out what is taking up storage for "local" you can use basic file system analyses commands. For example "du -h -d1 /var/lib/bz".
This google search will give you more options: "linux find out what's taking up disk space".

You can re-allocate space but its a manual process, using basic Linux administration. You will need to figure out what disk is "local" on, where the "local-lvm" is. It may be possible to shuffle space around or may not, depends on your specific configuration.


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You can't store ISOs on a ZFS storage or a LVM-Thin storage. What you could do is creating a dataset on your ZFS pool using the CLI (zfs create YourPool/YourNewDataset, zfs get mountpoint YourPool/YourNewDataset) and then adding its mountpoint as a new "directory storage" (WebUI: Datacenter -> Storage -> Add -> Directory). That directory storage then can be used to store ISOs.
 
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