Homelab

My intention is NOT to create a clickbait title, but I have found a re-invigoration within me with regards to data - or in layman’s terms, data hoarding. I have always had around 8-10TB of data between videos, family pics and videos, and some games (not my entire GOG or Steam library yet, but maybe one day). All of this takes up precious space on my HDDs.

Physical Media Renaissance

I’ve been in a mode where I head to my local second-hand DVD store and purchase movies and shows at great prices. Ripping them with my purchased copy of MakeMKV - mostly to stop the nagging and reinstalling required to “renew” the free license - has caused my media storage space to grow exponentially.

My server, cprox, as I call it, was set up with only 64GB of storage on the root partition. I don’t know what I was thinking at the time, but this caused issues only a week after setting up the new server.

Within this time, the OS, packages, and other things Proxmox does, consumed 86% of the drive. This made things run slowly and caused the command line to freeze sometimes, which was very weird since the OS was on mirrored SSDs - though which is exactly what allowed me to do this resizing live.