Storage issues

This section contains issues related to storage systems supported by Proxmox, such as local, NFS, Ceph, GlusterFS, and so on.

Issue – Deleting a damaged LVM from Proxmox with the error read failed from 0 to 4096

Solution: Run the following command from the CLI:

# dmsetup remove /dev/<volume_group>/<lvm_name>

Issue – Proxmox cannot mount NFS Share due to the timing out error

Solution: Some NFS servers such as FreeNAS do a reverse lookup for hostnames. We need to add Proxmox hostnames to the host files of the NFS server:

# nano /etc/hosts

Issue: How to delete leftover NFS shares in Proxmox or what to do when the NFS stale file handles error occurs?

Solution: When NFS shares are deleted from the Proxmox storage; in some cases, it still remains mounted, which causes the NFS Stale File Handle error. Simply manually unmounting the share and removing the NFS mount point folder from the Proxmox directory fixes this issue. Run the following commands from the...