From 9c41b54dc509727c2c8d77129a9b8dbbdf03e7fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dietmar Maurer Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 09:14:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] improve docs about default storage configuration --- pvesm.adoc | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/pvesm.adoc b/pvesm.adoc index 462d942..5f8020e 100644 --- a/pvesm.adoc +++ b/pvesm.adoc @@ -134,24 +134,33 @@ Each storage pool has a ``, and is uniquely identified by its `: ` line starts the pool definition, which is then followed by a list of properties. Most properties have values, but some of them come with reasonable default. In that case you can omit the value. +To be more specific, take a look at the default storage configuration +after installation. It contains one special local storage pool named +`local`, which refers to the directory '/var/lib/vz' and is always +available. The {pve} installer creates additional storage entries +depending on the storage type chosen at installation time. + .Default storage configuration ('/etc/pve/storage.cfg') ---- dir: local path /var/lib/vz content iso,vztmpl,backup +# default image store on LVM based installation lvmthin: local-lvm thinpool data vgname pve content rootdir,images + +# default image store on ZFS based installation +zfspool: local-zfs + pool rpool/data + sparse + content images,rootdir ---- Common Storage Properties