https://blog.daphnia.pw/tags/sysadmin/ Recent content in sysadmin on daphnia Hugo -- gohugo.io en Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:19:00 +0300 https://blog.daphnia.pw/posts/2025-proxmox_increase_the_size_of_backup_partition/ Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:19:00 +0300 https://blog.daphnia.pw/posts/2025-proxmox_increase_the_size_of_backup_partition/ Problem encountered I had a proxmox server locally running with a disk space of roughly 4TBs. The time came to analyze an unsually large disk image (~1TB). However, by default, when you install a proxmox server, two partitions are created: local and *local-lvm": local is usually automatically assigned ~90-100GB, and this partition is where the root ("/") is mounted. local-lvm gets all the remaining space left on your server. local is a regular directory, and thus you can store any files or folders you want there (containers’ and VM’s backup, IS files, etc.