Orphaned VM Disk Removal

[kromberg]

I got a disk sitting out on the storage device that is orphaned. It was created when I moved the disk for the VM from one storage device to another and forgot to check the delete source box. How can I delete this disk? It is not showing up with the VM config, but proxmox believes it belongs to the VM when looking at the storage device.

 

[gfngfn256]

Your VM's Disk(s) will usually be located at /mnt/pve/{StorageNm}/images/{VMID}/

Find the correct {StorageNm} & {VMID} used and then you can ls /mnt/pve/{StorageNm}/images/{VMID}/ to get a list of disk(s) used
replacing the correct {StorageNm} & {VMID}.

Once your certain which one is the orphan you can simply remove with rm /mnt/pve/{StorageNm}/images/{VMID}/{orphan.xxxx}
replacing the correct {StorageNm} & {VMID} & {orphan.xxxx}.

 

[kromberg]

The disk is in a zfs pool and not a disk. I would need to destroy the dataset/vdev right?

 

[kromberg]

I really dont understand why there is even an option for not deleting the source disk when moving it. Or at least the default is to have the box checked.

 

[bbgeek17]

Run "qm disk rescan", then you can delete it from VM hardware page - it will be under unnamedX.

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[kromberg]

Awesome, thanks bbgeek17!