<div dir="ltr">Thanks for all the good feedback Eneko.<div><br></div><div>This server will be decommissioned in few months and replaced by proper servers with RAID. Until then I have to cope with this and hope nothing happens. I do keep backups of VMs on nightly basis though.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just to make sure, I don't have fakeraid setup or something else that might bite me later on, how can I go about creating a separate storage rather than extending the current one? I check this page and it seems it's not the right one for me as it says there is only RAW support with that method: <a href="http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Model#LVM_Groups_with_Local_Backing">http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Model#LVM_Groups_with_Local_Backing</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Please guide me to proper/permanent way to make this 2nd HDD available to system as a separate storage module.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Eneko Lacunza <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elacunza@binovo.es" target="_blank">elacunza@binovo.es</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hi Bruce,<div class="im"><br>
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On 23/09/13 16:26, Bruce B wrote:<br>
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<div>Nice command! Gives the whole picture at once.</div>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">root@prox1:~# pvs</font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff"> PV VG Fmt Attr PSize
PFree </font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff"> /dev/sda2 pve lvm2 a-- 931.01g
16.00g</font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff"> /dev/sdb2 lvm2 a-- 931.01g
931.01g</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Does that ^^^ mean I have 1TB of free
space which I can use? :) If so, how should I go about
adding it to Proxmox. I would like to take the *Safest* and
*Simplest* way possible.</font></div>
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Yes, you have a not used disk. If you want to add it to Proxmox VM
storage, you should (first explore commands with -h flag!!!): <br>
1. Add the PV to pve volumegroup (something like 'vgextend pve
/dev/sdb')<br>
2. Change size of LV for data in PVE, i.e. 'lvextend -L +915G
/dev/pve/data/'<br>
3. Resize filesystem, i.e. 'resize2fs /dev/pve/data/'<br>
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You can do all commands without unmounting the filesystem if you
have used Proxmox defaults (ext3/ext4 filesystem)<br>
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I don't know what are you using the server for, but remember that
you don't have data redundancy (raid1).<br>
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Cheers<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Eneko</font></span><div class="im"><br>
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