🛠 Remove Existing Mount Point and Recreate Empty VG

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SolusVM 2.0 requires an empty Volume Group (VG) to provision VPSes. That means:

  • The VG should exist,
  • but contain no Logical Volumes (LVs) and no filesystem.

Here’s the exact safe sequence to wipe the existing mount and leave just an empty VG ready for SolusVM 2.0.

🛠 Reset Storage for SolusVM 2.0 – Empty VG

⚠️ Warning: This will destroy all data inside the old mount. Backup first.

1. Stop usage & unmount

Check if it’s mounted:

mount | grep storage1

Unmount:

umount /storage1

If busy:

lsof +D /storage1
fuser -vm /storage1

Kill or stop services, then retry umount.

2. Remove existing Logical Volumes (LVs)

List them:

lvdisplay

Remove:

lvremove -y /dev/vg_raid1/*

3. Remove the old VG

vgremove -y vg_raid1

4. Recreate empty VG on RAID device

SolusVM will detect this VG and use it:

vgcreate vg_raid1 /dev/md127

5. Verify it is empty

vgs
lvs

Expected output:

  • vgs shows vg_raid1 exists with free space available.
  • lvs shows no logical volumes.

✅ At this point, vg_raid1 is clean and empty, exactly what SolusVM 2.0 requires for managing KVM/Xen VPS storage.

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