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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    8 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