r/Proxmox•
Asdar

What does the purge checkbox do when destroying VMs or containers?

I've been trying to find out what this checkbox does when deleting a VM or container, but I've been unable to find any documentation that mentions it. Does anyone know? I don't believe it was there in PVE 5.x.

Posted Nov 15, 2019, 4:08 PM UTC

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afroman_says•

Does this provide enough explanation?

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AsdarOP•

Yea. I can't believe I missed the tooltip.

I don't really get how you could remove a VM and keep it in the replication and backup jobs. I guess I don't understand what would be different if you don't check that box.

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mentalsong•

this possibly?

pveceph purge Destroy ceph related data and configuration files.

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