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Setup redundant swap partition on Proxmox 8

8 July 2025
One cannot use swap files on BTRFS and ZFS mirrors (or any other RAID levels), they require separate partitions. For high-availability and to ensure a drive failure doesn't result in a system crash, we need to create mirrored partitions and create our swap partition on top of that.
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Configuring BTRFS mirror (RAID1) on Proxmox 8.3 root partition

3 July 2025
Proxmox 8.3 installer has support for BTRFS mirror as a "technical preview", but out of the box the Proxmox installer does not actually create a fault-tolerant installation. In this post we go over how to sync the bootloaders using proxmox-boot-tool

Build a new Proxmox cluster for my home lab

20 February 2025
Status
Active
I've had a little homelab for decades and I've been using Proxmox for many years now. I had a cluster, but I wanted to rebuild it so I migrated everything to a standalone server and then everything paused there. I want to pick up on that project, but this time I want to document it along the way.
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