[Gluster-users] what is the best practice to deleteing a gluster volume?

[Carlos Capriotti]

Hi.

I personally would go for option 2, but read until the end before doing
anything, right ?

It is mandatory to stop the volume before you can delete it; Gluster will
not allow you to delete it while it is on.

After stopping, just delete the volume from the CLI.
Next, just delete the contents from your shell. Normally volumes are
contained within a folder, so using the traditional

rm -fR /export/volume_you_want_to_delete

will do the trick. But there is NO GOING BACK. Make sure you know what you
are doing.

Now, you will need to do this on all nodes. If you have too many, you might
want to use a for or while loop to automate the process.

KR,

Carlos


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Khoi Mai <KHOIMAI at up.com> wrote:

> I was hoping for guidance on what is the best practice to deleting a
> gluster volume?
>
> I thought about it in 2 ways.
>
> 1. delete the content's of a volume through a client.
>         a. then stopping the gluster volume
>         b. delete the volume from the gluster cli
>         b. delete the volume directory off the bricks?
>
> or
>
> 2. stop the gluster volume
>         a. delete it from gluster cli
>         b. delete brick directory of that volume
>
> Thanks,
>
> Khoi Mai
>
>
>
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