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title: "Multiple ZFS pools on single drive"
url: https://michalasobczak.pl/posts/multiple-zfs-pools-on-single-drive.html
author: "Michał Sobczak"
description: "Image a hypothetical scenario having two 512 GB drives and want to use a Proxmox ZFS VM replication onto a second server with one 1 TB drive. Solution is quite simple."
published: 2022-09-03T16:25:44.000Z
updated: 2022-09-06T10:42:12.000Z
language: en
categories: ["Technology"]
tags: ["Proxmox", "ZFS"]
license: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
---
# Multiple ZFS pools on single drive

Image a hypothetical scenario having two 512 GB drives and want to use a Proxmox ZFS VM replication onto a second server with one 1 TB drive. Solution is quite simple. By using fdisk, create two primary partitions on the bigger drive and then go to Disks.ZFS.CreateZFS and you will be able to select a partition for the particular pool. One downside of such a setup is that ZFS liks to have whole drive for it’s own, please keep in mind that the performance may vary.