An Example of using unlink - Remove virtual disks

[princeo]

I want to remove old virtual disks that are clogging up my system. They are from an old install.

Ive tried the following and it doesnt work
qm unlink 104 vm-101-disk-2
and this doesnt work, I get an error Can't use string ("vm-101-disk-2") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/JSONSchema.pm line 977. (I guess this is perl)

can some one please show an example of doing this. Or what is the best way to remove virtual disks that are no longer required.

 

[udo]

I want to remove old virtual disks that are clogging up my system. They are from an old install.

Ive tried the following and it doesnt work
qm unlink 104 vm-101-disk-2
and this doesnt work, I get an error Can't use string ("vm-101-disk-2") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/JSONSchema.pm line 977. (I guess this is perl)

can some one please show an example of doing this. Or what is the best way to remove virtual disks that are no longer required.

Hi,
if the disks are inside an vm-config simply remove with the gui (select VM -> Hardware, select harddisk -> Remove).
If the config are gone, use "lvremove" (look with lvs or lvdisplay for the names).

Udo

 

[princeo]

Thanks Worked a treat. Used lvs to get the content listed, then I run lvremove vm-101-disk-2 and the file was gone. I eventually removed about 200gig from my 1tb hard drive.

 

[RolandK]

a little bit late reply - but that should have been :

qm unlink 104 --idlist scsiX (where scsiX is the device string/name where vm-101-disk-2 is attached to)

in my configuration it looks like this
scsi2: Disk2:vm-104-disk-0,backup=0,iothread=1,size=768G

you could also just manually edit 104.conf and delete that line with vi