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

2004-04-14 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, so I had set up a rudimentary vinum configuration. I eventually rebooted the machine to make sure everything came up again correctly. It did, but it also picked up a couple of old drives and volumes that I had previously used for testing. vinum l now yields: 3 drives: D alpha

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

2004-04-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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

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

2004-04-14 Thread Peter Schuller
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. Thanks! What is it about the situation that means -f is needed? In any