Why does proxmox say 5gb is not enough for hdsize while it uses 1.3 gb in all my other installations

eth

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I am installing on a SSD drive and trying to save up every GB I can. I tried 3, 5 gigabytes and it tells me that space is not enough AFTER I fill out all other information. I have to restart the server and go through the installation again.

It's such a frustration.

First of all, why do you say 3gb is not enough when you clearly use not more than 1.3gb?

Second, why do you tell me that space is not enough, when I finished filling all the forms out? I'm on KVM halfway across the world and this shit takes a lot of time. You could do this when I am entering the actual size and save me time.

The reason I don't use that much space is because I prefer my virtual machines to sit directly on the disk partitions (and not using the proxmox partition).
 
I am installing on a SSD drive and trying to save up every GB I can. I tried 3, 5 gigabytes and it tells me that space is not enough AFTER I fill out all other information. I have to restart the server and go through the installation again.

It's such a frustration.

First of all, why do you say 3gb is not enough when you clearly use not more than 1.3gb?
Hi,
I can guess only, but I think nobody is happy if the production node fails because the logs fill the root... SSD-storage is not so expensive these days.
The reason I don't use that much space is because I prefer my virtual machines to sit directly on the disk partitions (and not using the proxmox partition).
you are sure that this is an good idea??

I'm not - no migration, less flexibility (expand VM-disks) - and why?

Udo
 
the lower limit is 8GB, anything less than that seems unreasonably small?
 

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