<p>I am trying to delete a persistent volume, to start form scratch a used kafka cluster into kubernetes, <strong>i changed the Retain mode to Delete, it was Retain.</strong>
But i am not able to delete two of the three volumes:</p>

<pre><code>[yo@machine kafka_k8]$ kubectl describe pv kafka-zk-pv-0
  Name:           kafka-zk-pv-0
  Labels:         type=local
  StorageClass:
  Status:         Failed
  Claim:          kafka-ns/datadir-0-poc-cp-kafka-0
  Reclaim Policy: Delete
  Access Modes:   RWO
  Capacity:       500Gi
  Message:        host_path deleter only supports /tmp/.+ but received provided /mnt/disk/kafka
  Source:
         Type:       HostPath (bare host directory volume)
         Path:       /mnt/disk/kafka
  Events:
        {persistentvolume-controller }                  Warning         
        VolumeFailedDelete      host_path deleter only supports /tmp/.+ but received provided /mnt/disk/kafka
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jacktrade
<p>I changed the policy &quot;Retain&quot; to &quot;<strong>Recycle</strong>&quot; and the volume now is able to be recreated.</p>
<pre class="lang-sh prettyprint-override"><code>kubectl patch pv kafka-zk-pv-0 -p '{&quot;spec&quot;:{&quot;persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy&quot;:&quot;Recycle&quot;}}'
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