so,i had to put my computer on a diet, the SSD filled up and i ended up offline for a bit.

whah happen?

to get a bit of speed when i build vm’s i use the SSD on my hypervisor machine, before shipping the disk off to my nas for running normally.

Guess what i forgot to do..

it didn’t happen fast, but due to thin allocation the storage volume filled up. also, it’s linked to the root volume.. so i couldn’t perform maintenance..

proxmox went Hurk-blah

what’d i do to fix it?

well, the immediate problem is i needed to gain some disk space back before i could “storage vmotion”.

initially i thought i could cheat and move a disk out the way from underneath a vm.. then i realised that the inode wouldn’t release until the vm was shut down. and i couln’t shut down the vm until i had some free space.

the end result, was i hunted out some files that i didn’t need.. thankfully there were plenty in /var/cache/apt/whatever the path is.. Brilliant i have freed up some space..

next up, hard power down… things had fucked up a bit, so starting from fresh was good.

from there storage vmotion away and restart everything

what to do next

well, i’m going to put a big blob of a file onto the filesystem that is needed by nothing.. just in case

so, yeah