====== Proxmox - Disks - Add Storage Drives - LVM ======

Use LVM if you have single data disk.

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===== List disk devices with lsblk =====

<code bash>
lsblk
</code>

returns:

<code bash>
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  
</code>

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===== Create partitions =====

<code bash>
fdisk /dev/sdb
</code>

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===== Format device =====

<code bash>
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
</code>

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===== Create a physical group =====

<code bash>
pvcreate /dev/sdb1
</code>

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===== Create logical group =====

<code bash>
vgcreate vSSD /dev/sdb1
</code>


<WRAP info>
**NOTE:**  To use GUI

  * Navigate to **DataCenter -> Storage -> Add -> LVM**.
</WRAP>


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===== To add as a directory =====

After formatting mount the some directory:

<code bash>
mkdir /backup
mount /dev/sdb1 /backup
vim /etc/fstab
</code>

and add:

<file bash /etc/fstab>
/dev/sdb1/ /backup ext4 defaults 0 0
</file>

<WRAP info>
**NOTE:**  To use GUI:

  * Navigate to **Datacenter -> Storage -> Add -> Directory**.

</WRAP>