Gluster users - Mar 2017 - Old bricks from deleted volumes

Hello,

I have bricks were there volume doesn't exists anymore. Is there a way I can
add these bricks to a new volume?

Essentially - 

    gluster volume create new-volume host1:/export/brick1 host2:/export/brick2

    /export/brick1 is part of a volume

I know the way you are supposed to do it is 

    gluster volume remove-brick myvolume host1:/export/brick1

but unfortunately that old volume does not exist anymore. Is it is easy as
removing the .glusterfs directory in the brick?

I found some documentation that says you should do that, but I also found a very
old mailing article that says you shouldn?t do it.

Jordan

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 12:43 PM, J.R. W <jwillis0720 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have bricks were there volume doesn't exists anymore. Is there a way
I
> can add these bricks to a new volume?
>
> Essentially -
>
>     gluster volume create new-volume host1:/export/brick1
> host2:/export/brick2
>
>     /export/brick1 is part of a volume
>
You can use a force option here to bypass this check.

>
> I know the way you are supposed to do it is
>
>     gluster volume remove-brick myvolume host1:/export/brick1
>
> but unfortunately that old volume does not exist anymore. Is it is easy as
> removing the .glusterfs directory in the brick?
>
> I found some documentation that says you should do that, but I also found
> a very old mailing article that says you shouldn?t do it.
>
> Jordan
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