From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from firstgate.proxmox.com (firstgate.proxmox.com [212.224.123.68]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.proxmox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7F4E79671 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:21:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from firstgate.proxmox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by firstgate.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id D5A33E84A for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:21:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (proxmox-new.maurer-it.com [94.136.29.106]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by firstgate.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTPS id 08073E838 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:21:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id CC0B445F13 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:21:02 +0200 (CEST) To: pve-user@lists.proxmox.com References: <8gol4i-t141.ln1@hermione.lilliput.linux.it> From: Fabian Ebner Message-ID: <20397418-36a4-4361-9f2a-8cbc71c7684c@proxmox.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:21:02 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8gol4i-t141.ln1@hermione.lilliput.linux.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SPAM-LEVEL: Spam detection results: 0 AWL 0.367 Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address BAYES_00 -1.9 Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% KAM_DMARC_STATUS 0.01 Test Rule for DKIM or SPF Failure with Strict Alignment NICE_REPLY_A -0.215 Looks like a legit reply (A) SPF_HELO_NONE 0.001 SPF: HELO does not publish an SPF Record SPF_PASS -0.001 SPF: sender matches SPF record Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Conversion LXC -> VM, mountpoint to volume? X-BeenThere: pve-user@lists.proxmox.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Proxmox VE user list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 07:21:35 -0000 Hi, I don't think that's possible without moving the data. The LXC mountpoint is a ZFS file system, but for a VM you need a ZFS volume, which is a virtual block device, so renaming won't work. Am 26.10.21 um 18:55 schrieb Marco Gaiarin: > > In my home server i've an LXC container with an additional mountpoint, that > contain a lot of data (1.5TB). > > I need to convert the LXC to a VM; there's no trouble to reinstall the base > machine, but if possible i don't want to 'move' 1.5TB of data... > > > Can i simply (a rename suffices? I'm using ZFS as storage) convert an LXC > mountpoint to an VM (additional) volume? > > > Thanks. >