ARGH!
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