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Date:      Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:36:29 +1000
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Samuel Chow <cyschow@shaw.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to remove a vinum volume?
Message-ID:  <20030915183629.GE739@adelaide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <00a801c3750a$db00eea0$0601a8c0@celeron>
References:  <00a801c3750a$db00eea0$0601a8c0@celeron>

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On Sunday,  7 September 2003 at  0:39:57 -0600, Samuel Chow wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>     I have the following vinum volume that I want to remove.
>     The disks will be reassigned to other machines.
>
>     After reading the man page, I am under the impression that
>     I am supposed to first use the stop command.
>
> ...
>
>     Umm... The stop command doesn't seem to work recursively, even
>     when the -r flag is specified.
>
>     vinum -> rm -r dataVol
>     Can't remove dataVol: Device busy (16)

The way to do it is with rm -rf.  Arguably this is a bug.

Greg
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