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Basic Settings

The Basic Settings category focuses on foundational configurations for your Proxmox VE installation, including installing essential utilities, adding repositories, managing packages, and keeping the system up to date.

Available Optimizations

Select and Install System Utilities

This option presents a menu where you can select which system utilities to install based on your needs.

System Utilities Selection Menu

The utilities selection menu allows you to choose which tools to install

Available utilities:

This option automatically installs these utilities by running this command:

Skip Downloading Additional Languages

This optimization configures APT to skip downloading additional language packages, which can save disk space and speed up package operations.

Why it's beneficial: By skipping unnecessary language packages, you can reduce disk usage and improve the speed of package management operations. This is particularly useful in server environments where multiple language support is often not required.

This adjustment automates the following command:

Synchronize Time Automatically

This optimization configures the system to automatically synchronize its time, ensuring accurate timekeeping.

Why it's beneficial: Accurate timekeeping is crucial for many system operations, log consistency, and proper functioning of time-sensitive applications. Automatic synchronization ensures your Proxmox VE system maintains the correct time without manual intervention.

This adjustment automates the following command:

Update and Upgrade System

This optimization updates the system's package lists, upgrades installed packages, and configures Proxmox repositories. It also includes additional steps to properly set up Debian repositories, disable certain warnings, and perform safety checks after the update process.

Why it's beneficial: Keeping your system up-to-date is essential for security, stability, and performance. This optimization ensures you have the latest patches and features, while also configuring the correct repositories for Proxmox VE, enabling access to necessary updates and tools. The disk metadata check helps prevent potential issues with storage devices that may have been modified by virtual machines.

Repository changes:

  • Disabled: Enterprise Proxmox repository (pve-enterprise.list) - This repository is for users with a paid subscription.
  • Disabled: Enterprise Proxmox Ceph repository (ceph.list) - This repository is for enterprise Ceph storage solutions.
  • Added: Free public Proxmox repository (pve-public-repo.list) - This provides access to free Proxmox VE updates and packages.
  • Configured: Main Debian repositories - These provide access to the core Debian packages and security updates.

This adjustment automates the following command:

Post-Update Safety Check

After updating the system, the script performs an important safety check to detect disks with old PV (Physical Volume) headers that might have been modified by virtual machines.

Why this matters: When VMs have direct access to disks through passthrough, they can sometimes modify the disk metadata. This can cause issues with storage management on the host system, potentially leading to data access problems or errors when using LVM (Logical Volume Manager).

If any issues are detected, the script will display a warning message and suggest running the pvs command to identify the affected disks. This early detection helps prevent potential storage problems before they impact your system.

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