Can't destroy template

Santiago GH

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Hi all.

I have a template and linked clones.

I have deleted all the clones with "qm destroy <vmid>", but when i try to delete the templage, i get the following message:

TASK ERROR: base volume 'cabina:300/base-300-disk-0.qcow2' is still in use by linked cloned

I have checked that there is not any cloned vm in any node.

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance.
 
check all your storages for images that still are based on that image
 
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Thank you for your super fast and accurate answer. (thumbs up)

There were several orphan images. Everything ok now.

Regards.

Santiago GH.
 
And how does one do that?
grep -iRl 'base-VMID' /etc/pve/ should work, replace the VMID with the template's VMID, e.g. grep -iRl 'base-300' /etc/pve/

that will give you a list of VMs using that image
 
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Hi,
if you also want to catch orphaned images (i.e. those not showing up in any configuration file), you can use
Code:
pvesh get /nodes/<node>/storage/<storage ID>/content
replacing <node> and <storage ID> appropriately and checking the parent column.
 
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