Unable to add directory

[Finnigan]

Hello,

I'm a new user to Proxmox and Linux in general. I'm going through the new Proxmox installation tutorial posted by ProxmoxHHS here on the forums. They say to go to Datacenter>pve and click Directory under disks. In the window that pops up there are no disks listed. These drives were pulled out of my old windows server so maybe that's why? I have a 128GB SSD and 2x 1TB HDDs. I installed Proxmox on my SSD.



I found online to issue the fdisk-l command via shell to see the drives in the system.



Here's the output but I'm not sure what to do after this point. Thanks!

 

[Stefan_R]

The "Create: Directory" GUI only shows unused disks. All of your disks already have a file system on them. You say you pulled your drives out of a Windows machine, so I'm guessing one of them is /dev/sdd, as it reports an NTFS volume ("Microsoft basic data").

If you don't want to keep the data stored on the disks, you can run wipefs -a /dev/sdX on your drives. Make sure you have the right drives, as this will make all data on them inaccessible!

After that, the "Create: Directory" GUI should show them.

Edit: If it doesn't, check the "Disks" tab of your node and see if they have a GPT ("yes/no"). If "no", click "Initialize Disk with GPT" before attempting to create the directory.