How to remove a vinum volume?

Greg Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 15 21:45:57 PDT 2003


On Sunday,  7 September 2003 at  0:39:57 -0600, Samuel Chow wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>     I have the following vinum volume that I want to remove.
>     The disks will be reassigned to other machines.
>
>     After reading the man page, I am under the impression that
>     I am supposed to first use the stop command.
>
> ...
>
>     Umm... The stop command doesn't seem to work recursively, even
>     when the -r flag is specified.
>
>     vinum -> rm -r dataVol
>     Can't remove dataVol: Device busy (16)

The way to do it is with rm -rf.  Arguably this is a bug.

Greg
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