Can I safely remove old 'state-suspend' VM Disks?

Feb 17, 2020
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Hi proxmox-fellows,

I noticed that I have a lot of old 'state-suspend' VM Disks that are eating up space on my Proxmox server. Can I safely remove them without corrupting the VMs?

Thanks!

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I've done it like this
Code:
# list disks/ blockdevices:
root@pve-werk:/dev/pve# ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 320 Jul 25 00:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4400 Jul 25 00:34 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 25 00:34 root -> ../dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 25 00:34 swap -> ../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 25 00:41 vm-100-disk-0 -> ../dm-6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 25 00:41 vm-100-disk-1 -> ../dm-7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 25 00:41 vm-100-disk-2 -> ../dm-8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 25 00:34 vm-100-state-suspend-2024-03-27 -> ../dm-9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 25 00:34 vm-100-state-suspend-2024-03-28 -> ../dm-10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 25 00:34 vm-100-state-suspend-2024-04-24 -> ../dm-11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 25 00:34 vm-100-state-suspend-2024-04-29 -> ../dm-12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 25 00:34 vm-100-state-suspend-2024-07-24 -> ../dm-17
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 25 00:41 vm-101-disk-0 -> ../dm-13
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 25 00:41 vm-101-disk-1 -> ../dm-14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 25 00:41 vm-101-disk-2 -> ../dm-15
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 25 00:34 vm-101-state-suspend-2024-07-23 -> ../dm-16
root@pve-werk:/dev/pve# ls ../dm
dm-0 dm-10 dm-12 dm-14 dm-16 dm-2 dm-4 dm-6 dm-8 dma_heap/
dm-1 dm-11 dm-13 dm-15 dm-17 dm-3 dm-5 dm-7 dm-9
root@pve-werk:/dev/pve# ls ../dm
dm-0 dm-10 dm-12 dm-14 dm-16 dm-2 dm-4 dm-6 dm-8 dma_heap/
dm-1 dm-11 dm-13 dm-15 dm-17 dm-3 dm-5 dm-7 dm-9
I would like to remove the disks with state-suspend in them, so like this:
Code:
# list the disks through proxmox interface
lvs
# remove all the 100 disks:
lvremove /dev/pve/vm-100-state-suspend-2024-0*
Do you really want to remove active logical volume pve/vm-100-state-suspend-2024-03-28? [y/n]: y
Logical volume "vm-100-state-suspend-2024-03-28" successfully removed.
...
# remove the single 101 disk:
lvremove vm-101-state-suspend-2024-07-23
 

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