Why does Proxmox VE 2 take so much space in / and how can it be modified?

[micoots]

Hi. Installing Proxmox VE 2 on new HP ProLiant DL360 G7 servers with 300Gb logical volume.

After ISO install, the filesystem sizing is:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/pve-root 71990616 958208 67375500 2% /
tmpfs 6143728 0 6143728 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 6134140 224 6133916 1% /dev
tmpfs 6143728 12528 6131200 1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/pve-data 187967340 191984 187775356 1% /var/lib/vz
/dev/sda1 506724 55840 424721 12% /boot
/dev/fuse 30720 12 30708 1% /etc/pve

or more readble:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/pve-root 69G 937M 65G 2% /
tmpfs 5.9G 0 5.9G 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 5.9G 224K 5.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 5.9G 19M 5.9G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/pve-data 180G 188M 180G 1% /var/lib/vz
/dev/sda1 495M 55M 415M 12% /boot
/dev/fuse 30M 12K 30M 1% /etc/pve

Also performed on a server with 146Gb logical volume and / is 30Gb.

Seems like quite a lot of wasted space that will never be used in / that Proxmox auto-partitions from the boot ISO.

Is there a way to change this? no options seem to exist off the ISO install. Thanks.

 

[udo]

Hi. Installing Proxmox VE 2 on new HP ProLiant DL360 G7 servers with 300Gb logical volume.
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Seems like quite a lot of wasted space that will never be used in / that Proxmox auto-partitions from the boot ISO.

Is there a way to change this? no options seem to exist off the ISO install. Thanks.

Hi,
you can use boot-options - look here http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/80...k-space-used-during-install?p=48415#post48415

Udo

 

[tom]

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Seems like quite a lot of wasted space that will never be used in / that Proxmox auto-partitions from the boot ISO.

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depends on your use case. e.g. I use the / many times to store temporary snapshot backups.

but as Udo already mentioned, you can set the maxroot option on installation.