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281 Intel® RAID Software User Guide
10.5.4.2 Delete Virtual Drives Commands
The Storage Command Line Tool supports the following virtual drive delete commands:
storcli /cx/vx|vall del
storcli /cx/vx|vall del cachecade
storcli /cx/vx|vall del force
Note: If the virtual drive has user data, you must use the force option to delete the virtual drive.
A virtual drive with a valid master boot recor
d (MBR) and a partition table is considered
to contain user data.
If you delete a virtual drive with a valid MBR without erasing the data
and then create a
new virtual drive using the same set of physical drives and the same RAID level as the
deleted virtual drive, the old unerased MBR still exists at block0 of the new virtual drive,
which makes it a virtual drive with valid user data. Therefore, you must provide the
force option to delete this newly created virtual drive.
The detailed description for each command follows.
storcli /cx/vx|vall del
This command deletes a particular virtual drive or, when the vall option is used, all the
virtual drives on the controller are deleted.
Input example:
storcli /c0/v2 del
Note: This command deletes virtual drives. Data located on these drives will no longer be
accessible.
storcli /cx/vx|vall del cachecade
This command deletes a specific CacheCade virtual drive on a controller, or all the
CacheCade configuration for a controller.
Input example:
storcli /c0/vall del cachecade
Note: This command deletes virtual drives. Data located on these drives will no longer be
accessible.
storcli /cx/vx|vall del force
This command deletes a virtual drive only after the cache flush is completed. With the
force option, the command deletes a virtual drive without waiting for the cache flush to
complete.
Input example:
storcli /c0/v2 del force