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Okay so I’ve done some digging and got my VM to boot up! This is not Podman’s fault, I got lazy setting up Proxmox and never really learned LVM volume storage, while internally on the VM it shows 90Gb used of 325Gb Proxmox is claiming 377Gb is used on the LVM-Thin partition.
I’m backing up my files as we speak, thinking of purging it all and starting over.
Edit: before I do the sacrificial purge This seems promising.
Don't do that. You'll learn nothing.
So I happened to follow the advice from that Proxmox post, enabled the “Discard” option for the disk and ran
sudo fstrim /
within the VM, now the Proxmox LVM-Thin partition is sitting at a comfortable 135Gb out of 377Gb.Think I’m going to use this
fstrim
command on my main desktop to free up space.I think linux does fstrim oob.
edit: I meant to say linux distros are set up to do that automatically.
It’s been about a day since this issue and now I’ve been keeping a close eye on my local-lvm, it fills fast, like, ridiculously fast and I’ve been having to run
sudo fstrim /
inside the VM just to keep it maintained. I’m finding it weird I’m now just noticing this as this server has been running for months!For now I edited my
/etc/bash.bashrc
so whenever I ssh in it’ll automatically runsudo fstrim /
, there is something I’m likely missing but this works as a temporary solution.