I’m dangerously close to running out of space for my VMs on local-lvm, but noticed I have a lot of free space in my local storage where I only have a dozen ISOs stored.
Can anybody help me figure out how I’d go about shrinking the local storage so I can extend my local-lvm?
Create a new storage pool with bigger disk(s) and migrate your stuff
Much less of a headache.
You could also add a directory to your local-lvm storage and set that to be your iso store in datacenter-> storage
It’s really that much of a hassle to fiddle with the volume sizes?
Its definitely more of a hassle than adding another storage pool or creating a directory in local-lvm.
You suggested just adding the ISOs to local-lvm. Do you think it would be feasible to simply delete the local storage completely and then extend the local-lvm after, storing the ISOs there? I know extending volumes is much simpler than shrinking. And I imagine deleting completely is also easier than shrinking?
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https://old.reddit.com/comments/vj6u54/comment/idhfltv?context=3
From the comment:
This is how I do it:
boot into gparted (make bootable usb https://gparted.org/liveusb.php)
open terminal
run lvdisplay to check the proxmox root and data lv name and path
sudo lvdisplayresize the root lv (choose size, no curly brackets)
sudo lvreduce --resizefs -L {size}G /dev/pve/rootresize the data lv to use all available space
sudo lvresize -l +100%FREE /dev/pve/datareboot into proxmox
prayI do not suggest doing this. Just add another disk.
also: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/can-i-remove-local-and-local-lvm.122850/#post-534378
