title: How to completely delete a GlusterFS volume
body: <p>I have some GlusterFS(Version 3.7.11) volumes created and started, after some test, I stopped hand deleted the volumes, but they are still remain in the GlusterFS servers.</p>
  
  <p>For example, I have 3 servers, and bricks saved under /gfs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ sudo gluster volume create test-vol gfs-server-1:/gfs/test-vol gfs-server-2:/gfs/test-vol gfs-server-3:/gfs/test-vol force
  volume create: test-vol: success: please start the volume to access data
  [vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ sudo gluster volume start test-vol
  volume start: test-vol: success
  [vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ mkdir /tmp/test
  
  [vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ sudo mount -t glusterfs gfs-server-1:/test-vol /tmp/test
  
  [vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ sudo touch /tmp/test/`date +%s`.txt
  [vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ sudo touch /tmp/test/`date +%s`.txt
  [vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ sudo touch /tmp/test/`date +%s`.txt
  [vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ sudo touch /tmp/test/`date +%s`.txt
  
  [vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ sudo ls /tmp/test/
  1469617442.txt    1469617446.txt    1469617447.txt    1469617449.txt
  [vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ ls /gfs/test-vol/
  1469617449.txt
  [vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ sudo umount /tmp/test
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After delete the volume, I can still see the files remain in the GlusterFS servers:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ sudo gluster volume stop test-vol
  Stopping volume will make its data inaccessible. Do you want to continue? (y/n) y
  volume stop: test-vol: success
  
  [vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ sudo gluster volume delete test-vol
  Deleting volume will erase all information about the volume. Do you want to continue? (y/n) y
  volume delete: test-vol: success
  
  [vagrant@gfs-server-2 ~]$ ls /gfs/test-vol/
  1469617449.txt
  </code></pre>