[PVE-User] Is it safe to remove orphaned disk images?

Arjen leesteken at protonmail.ch
Sat Jun 26 09:11:13 CEST 2021


On Saturday, June 26th, 2021 at 01:34, Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a root disk image for a container on an old network share, and
> I forgot to tell the system to remove the old image after migrating it
> to the newer network share. Because the VMID still exists, the web-ui
> is refusing to remove the disk image. If I manually remove it from
> the share, via linux, will it break anything?

Usually that works fine. If you want to test it first, just rename it instead.
And delete it only after you made sure there are no problems.




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