Hi Dan,

Please share the following to help the community help you

1. version of cloudstack
2. Hypervisor Type
3. Primary Storage Type e.g. NFS / iSCSI

I can confirm CloudStack is supposed to delete Root Volumes from physical 
storage after the VM has been deleted, but Data volumes are left in CloudStack 
as a safeguard against accidental deletion.  However if you then delete the 
Data volume from the UI, it will also be deleted from Primary Storage.

There are some settings which control the expunge delay within CloudStack, 
these are:

expunge.delay
expunge.interval
expunge.workers

If you could also share what these settings are, that would also help

Regards

Geoff Higginbottom

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Dong [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 02 February 2015 16:12
To: [email protected]
Subject: Force cleaning primary storage.

Hi, All,
  I found the primary storages are keep decreasing after I create and then 
destroy VMs. Although the VMs are destroyed and expunged, their occupation on 
primary storage seems never been released( even after weeks).
Is there a way to force releasing the disk space after a VM has been destroyed?

Cheers,
Dan
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