[SOLVED] Use same hard drive for Proxmox and data partition

[Ben_M]

Hi,

I have Proxmox VE installed on a ZOTAC CI327 with a 1 TB Samsung SSD. I assigned 80 GB to Proxmox, and left the rest. Then, I used a GParted Live USB drive to create a partition for the remaining 851.5GB (ext4).

The structure looks as follows:

root@pve:~# lsblk
NAME               MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda                  8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk
├─sda1               8:1    0     1M  0 part
├─sda2               8:2    0   256M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda3               8:3    0  79.8G  0 part
│ ├─pve-swap       253:0    0     8G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
│ ├─pve-root       253:1    0  19.8G  0 lvm  /
│ ├─pve-data_tmeta 253:2    0     1G  0 lvm
│ │ └─pve-data     253:4    0  40.1G  0 lvm
│ └─pve-data_tdata 253:3    0  40.1G  0 lvm
│   └─pve-data     253:4    0  40.1G  0 lvm
└─sda4               8:4    0 851.5G  0 part

Now I would like to add sda4 (with 851.5G) to Proxmox, so that I can use it as storage for/from VMs and Containers. I really tried hard (checked all options, searched this forum, the documentation, Google, etc.) but was not able to add it to Proxmox.
Can you please give me a hint?

Thanks,
Ben

 

[Ben_M]

Finally found it

Followed instructions from how to mount second partition or disk?

 

[janvv]

Hi Ben,

Hope you are still reading this forum

I ma buying a machine as a dev server, and was considering to install Linux and Virtualbox. But since I discovered about Proxmox, it looks like a good idea to use that instead.
My new machine with have lots of ram (64Gb),and I was considering to add one large disk of 2Tb.
From your message I understand that Proxmox can be installed on a single disk system?