What determines the size of local storage on installation?

Shadow Sysop

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What determines the size of the local storage on installation? Does it scale? I notice if installing to a 1TB disk, it uses about 100gb for local. Installing to a 240GB disk uses 58GB for the local. I want to do some installations on bigger disks but I don't want a gigantic local drive on them. Any advice is appreciated.
 
I would've never found this without your help. Thank you so much!

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maxroot
Defines the maximum size of the root volume, which stores the operation system. The maximum limit of the root volume size is hdsize/4.
 
The question also is where do you want to store ISOs, LXC templates, backups, snippets and so on as these can only be stored on a file level "directory" storage and not on a block level storage like the big "LVM-thin" or "ZFS" storage. But in case you don't want to store all of that on your root, because you for example use a NFS/SMB share for it, a maxroot of 32GB would be totally fine.
 
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Right. All these things are stored in NFS. I was concerned because if I use a 4TB disk, I don't want 1TB of local. Thanks again
 

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