[Gluster-users] Old bricks from deleted volumes

[J.R. W]

Hello,

I have bricks were there volume doesn't exists anymore. Is there a way I can add these bricks to a new volume? 

Essentially - 

    gluster volume create new-volume host1:/export/brick1 host2:/export/brick2

    /export/brick1 is part of a volume

I know the way you are supposed to do it is 

    gluster volume remove-brick myvolume host1:/export/brick1

but unfortunately that old volume does not exist anymore. Is it is easy as removing the .glusterfs directory in the brick?

I found some documentation that says you should do that, but I also found a very old mailing article that says you shouldn’t do it. 

Jordan