RHEL 6 Virtualization - 27.4. Deleting and removing volumes

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27.4. Deleting and removing volumes

This section shows how to delete a disk volume from a block based storage pool.

# virsh vol-delete --pool guest_images_disk volume1
Vol volume1 deleted

# virsh vol-list guest_images_disk
Name                 Path                                    
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volume2              /dev/sdb2                               
volume3              /dev/sdb3                               

# parted -s /dev/sdb print
Model: ATA ST3500418AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name     Flags
2      8590MB  17.2GB  8590MB               primary
3      17.2GB  25.8GB  8590MB               primary

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