[SOLVED] Cannot Remove Disk Image

[Stillkill]

I am trying to delete an orphaned disk image so that I can reformat a drive but whenever I do I get an error:




When I go to the VM with ID 102 I can see that this drive image is not referenced anywhere in the hardware, the drive image that you see referenced here lives on a different storage, not the local-lvm. I also cannot wipe the physical drive from the UI because the kernal has a hold on it.






Anyone got any suggestions.

 

[leesteken]

Proxmox probably won't let you delete any drive that appears to be related to an existing VM (as the number appears in the virtual disk name). I think that running a qm disk rescan --vmid 102 will add the (unreferenced) virtual disk to the VM again (but not connect it as a hard disk). You can then delete it (from the VM settings, not the storage).

 

[Stillkill]

Proxmox probably won't let you delete any drive that appears to be related to an existing VM (as the number appears in the virtual disk name). I think that running a qm disk rescan --vmid 102 will add the (unreferenced) virtual disk to the VM again (but not connect it as a hard disk). You can then delete it (from the VM settings, not the storage).

This worked. Thanks.

 

[Alecz]

This happens if you move a disk to a different storage via the GUI and do not select "delete source".
I would argue this is a bug in the GUI, but maybe there is some obscure reason it doesn't let you "cleanup" after.