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From: "Dominic Jäger" <d.jaeger@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pve-devel] [PATCH docs] pvesm: How to remove directory storages
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 12:44:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210521104448.4376-1-d.jaeger@proxmox.com> (raw)

Users are repeatedly left with entries in Disks->Directory, most recently
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/how-to-remove-local-directory-storage-properly.89504/

Signed-off-by: Dominic Jäger <d.jaeger@proxmox.com>
---
 pve-storage-dir.adoc | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pve-storage-dir.adoc b/pve-storage-dir.adoc
index 090a44b..8489b42 100644
--- a/pve-storage-dir.adoc
+++ b/pve-storage-dir.adoc
@@ -133,6 +133,19 @@ And you can remove the image with:
 
  # pvesm free local:100/vm-100-disk10.raw
 
+To completely remove a directory storage with the name `backup`,
+
+1. Remove the storage from `/etc/pve/storage.cfg`
+
+ # pvesm remove backup
+
+2. Stop & disable the systemd mount
+
+ # systemctl disable mnt-pve-backup.mount --now
+
+3. Remove the systemd mount file
+
+ # rm /etc/systemd/system/mnt-pve-backup.mount
 
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-- 
2.20.1





             reply	other threads:[~2021-05-21 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-21 10:44 Dominic Jäger [this message]
2021-06-18 16:31 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2021-06-21  7:06   ` Dominic Jäger

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