Vinum: How to safely remove a volume/drive from the configuration

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 14 16:30:26 PDT 2004


On Thursday, 15 April 2004 at  1:21:02 +0200, Peter Schuller wrote:
> I tried:
>
>    scode-whitestar# vinum stop test
>    scode-whitestar# vinum stop test3
>    scode-whitestar# vinum rm -r test
>    Can't remove test: Device busy (16)
>
> As I interpret the manpage, the use of '-f' should not be required. And
> indeed, I assume that '-f' should never be needed unless in extreme cases?

In this case, you need the -f flag.  The documentation is a bit fuzzy.

Greg
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