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?

    • krolden@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Its definitely more of a hassle than adding another storage pool or creating a directory in local-lvm.

      • brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        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?

        • krolden@lemmy.ml
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          6 months ago

          Search engines are your friend

          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 lvdisplay

          resize the root lv (choose size, no curly brackets)
          sudo lvreduce --resizefs -L {size}G /dev/pve/root

          resize the data lv to use all available space
          sudo lvresize -l +100%FREE /dev/pve/data

          reboot into proxmox
          pray

          I 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