Deleting an Amazon FSx for OpenZFS volume

This section provides information on how to delete an FSx for OpenZFS volume using the Amazon FSx console, the AWS CLI, and the Amazon FSx API.

When you delete a volume, the operation has the following results:

• Deletes all data in the volume

• Deletes all snapshots

• Deletes all child volumes and their snapshots

Note

You cannot delete a root volume. You also cannot delete any volumes from a client mount (for example, with a rm -r /fsx/vol1 command).

Before you delete a volume, make sure that no applications are accessing the data in the volume that you want to delete.

To delete a volume (console)

1. Open the Amazon FSx console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/fsx/.

2. In the left navigation pane, choose File systems, and then choose the FSx for OpenZFS file system that you want to delete a volume from.

3. Choose the Volumes tab.

4. Choose the volume that you want to delete.

5. For Actions, choose Delete volume.

6. In the delete dialog, do the following:

   1. Acknowledge that you understand the results of deleting the volume.

   2. Confirm the volume deletion by entering delete in the Confirm delete field.

7. Choose Delete volume(s).

To delete a volume (CLI)

• To delete an FSx for OpenZFS volume, use the delete-volume CLI command (or the equivalent DeleteVolume API operation), as shown in the following example.

  aws fsx delete-volume --volume-id fsxvol-0123456789abcdef1