[Users] Disk state - Illegal?

[Dan Ferris]

I was off today, so I just saw this.  I will try it out tomorrow.

Thanks!

Dan

On 9/25/2013 8:53 PM, Andrew Lau wrote:
> I noticed that too, I wasn't sure if it was a bug or just how I had
> setup my NFS share..
>
> There were three steps I did to remove the disk images, I'm sure there's
> a 100% easier solution..:
>
> I found the easiest way (graphically) was go to your
> https://ovirtengine/api/disks and so a search for the illegal disk.
> Append the extra ID eg. <diskhref="/api/disks/lk342-dfsdf...
> into your URL this'll give you your image ID.
>
> Go to your storage share:
> cd /data/storage-id/master/vms/storage-id
> grep -ir 'vmname' *
> You'll find the image-id reference here too.
>
> Then the image you will want to remove is in the
> /data/storage-id/images/image-id
> I assume you could safely remove this whole folder if you wanted to
> delete the disk.
>
> To remove the illegal state I did it through the API so again with the
> URL above https://ovirtengine/disks/disk-id send a DELETE using HTTP/CURL
>
> Again, this was a poor mans solution but it worked for me.
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Dan Ferris
> <dferris at prometheusresearch.com
> <mailto:dferris at prometheusresearch.com>>wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I have another hopefully simple question.
>
>     One VM that I am trying to remove says that it's disk state is
>     "illegal" and when I try to remove the disk it says that it failed
>     to initiate the removing of the disk.
>
>     Is there an easy way to get rid of these illegal disk images?
>
>     Dan
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