Hi guys, I think i made a terrible mistake (novice… first timer).
I think I installed one of the VM on the disk where proxmox is installed and it ran out of space because of another mistake and no everything is stuck.
I cant shut down the full vm (i get error messages like “closing file ‘/var/log/pve/tasks/active.tmp.108587’ failed - No space left on device (500)”)
I cant make changes to the proxmox server because I get similar messages depend on what I try to do…
I am trying to avoid re-installing everything, but I tried searching google and followed several youtube videos. nothing helped…
I did found out that I have an entire hard drive that I missed during the installation, and I managed to ruined that also, i tried to fdisk it before I cleared it from proxmox.
Please guys help me with these 2 things:
restore my system back to work
get my second hard drive to be availble for the server
Probably quicker to reinstall. Pull the disks that comprise the pool while doing this.
No way anyone can suggest a better solution with no more description of your system than “I think i made a terrible mistake” and “No space left on device (500)”
ZFS is resilient to power failures. The filesystem where Proxmox is installed - EXT4? - is also relatively resilient. Hold the power button long enough to power down (8-20s), cross your fingers, disconnect the pool drives and reboot.
I’m assuming that Proxmox is not installed on your storage pool.
I am also a rookie. An easy rookie solution for me was booting with a live-cd in an USB, mounting the file system in that live-os, moving VM files around and reboot. The culprit VM crashed, then I pointed to the new mounting points and worked great.
I was not using ZFS, but I guess the principle is the same. Hope it works. It was a 10minute fix.