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Proxmox - Disks - Add Storage Drives - LVM

Use LVM if you have single data disk.

List disk devices with lsblk

lsblk

returns: 

NAME                   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda                      8:0    0 298.1G  0 disk 
├─sda1                   8:1    0  1007K  0 part 
├─sda2                   8:2    0   512M  0 part 
└─sda3                   8:3    0 297.6G  0 part 
  ├─pve-swap           253:1    0     4G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
  ├─pve-root           253:2    0  74.3G  0 lvm  /
  ├─pve-data_tmeta     253:3    0     2G  0 lvm  
  │ └─pve-data         253:5    0 199.3G  0 lvm  
  └─pve-data_tdata     253:4    0 199.3G  0 lvm  
    └─pve-data         253:5    0 199.3G  0 lvm  
sdb                      8:16   0  14.6T  0 disk 
├─VM1-vm--103--disk--0 253:0    0     8G  0 lvm  
├─VM1-vm--100--disk--0 253:6    0    32G  0 lvm  
└─VM1-vm--102--disk--0 253:7    0     8G  0 lvm

Create partitions

fdisk /dev/sdb

Format device

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

Create a physical group

pvcreate /dev/sdb1

Create logical group

vgcreate vSSD /dev/sdb1

NOTE: To use GUI

  • Navigate to DataCenter → Storage → Add → LVM.

To add as a directory

After formatting mount the some directory: 

mkdir /backup
mount /dev/sdb1 /backup
vim /etc/fstab

and add:

/etc/fstab
/dev/sdb1/ /backup ext4 defaults 0 0

NOTE: To use GUI:

  • Navigate to Datacenter → Storage → Add → Directory.