What to do with found vm disk?

[701h]

Hello,

The local-lvm of one of my servers contains a vm-154-disk-0. I have no idea what this was, when it was used, or what might be on it. The VM it was used in no longer exists. How can I "pull" the disk to see what's on it, or verify that its not referenced on some other vm?

thanks
Rich

 

[bbgeek17]

You can "grep -R vm-154-disk-0 /etc/pve" to see if its referenced anywhere

To be able to move the disk elsewhere via PVE interface:
- create empty vm 154: qm create 154
- scan in disk to bring it in: qm disk rescan 154
- move disk to another vm: qm disk move 154 [disk] --target-vmid [id] (see "man qm" for [disk] format)
- confirm the disk was moved and renamed, now you can now delete temporary vm: qm destroy 154

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[Dunuin]

You can also mount the LV locally using the "mount" command after verifying that they are not already mounted by an VM.

 

[701h]

Thank you both.

 

[fiona]

Hi,
to add to what the others said, using fdisk -l /dev/mapper/pve-vm--154--disk--0 and wipefs /dev/mapper/pve-vm--154--disk--0 (won't actually wipe anything unless additional options are specified; you can also use the --no-act option if you like) is often a good first step to see what partitions or file system is on the volume.