[Gluster-users] Old bricks from deleted volumes

[Atin Mukherjee]

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 12:43 PM, J.R. W <jwillis0720 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>

You can use a force option here to bypass this check.


>
> 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
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