[OpenAFS] Unable to delete volume

[Gary Gatling]

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On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Aaron Knister wrote:

> There's a server that was decommissioned many moons ago that I'm trying to
> delete. The problem is there's a volume still associated with it [1], a RO
> volume at that. When I attempt to remove the volume usin its volume id I get
> this message:

Try vos remsite:

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/systems/AFS/1/vos_remsite.html

I think you will want to give it a volumeID intead of a volume name.

Hope that helps,

Gary Gatling      | ITECS Systems

> 
> --BEGIN--
> Could not delete entry for volume 536988828
> You must specify a RW volume name or ID (the entire VLDB entry will be
> deleted)
> VLDB: no such entry
> Deleted 0 VLDB entries
> --END--
> 
> Here's the output of vos listvldb -server for the server in question:
> 
> --BEGIN--
> VLDB entries for server 130.85.60.43
> 
> g.ilin22.local
>     ROnly: 536988828
>     number of sites -> 1
>        server 130.85.60.43 partition /vicepa RO Site
> 
> Total entries: 1
> --END--
> 
> To make matters more interesting, there's another volume of the same name
> but with a different volume ID.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> -Aaron
> 
> --
> Aaron Knister
> Systems Administrator
> Division of Information Technology
> University of Maryland, Baltimore County
> aaronk@umbc.edu
> 
>
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