[Lxc-users] lxc-destroy erase rootfs

[Papp Tamas]

On 02/08/2013 02:46 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
>
> Quoting John (lxc at jelmail.com):
>> I raised this issue back on 6th/7th December. It was a side-issue in
>> a discussion entitled "unable to run systemd in an LXC container". I
>> have always performed a destroy/create cycle to apply changes
>> written to /etc/lxc/mycontainer.conf. I was asked why I didn't edit
>> in /var directly and I replied that I treated the files created by
>> LXC in /var to be internal and have always used the destroy/create
>> cycle for config updates. There was talk of adding a -k (keep)
>> option to lxc-destroy.
>>
>> I have been working on other commitments and need to come back and
>> revisit this but it's good to see others have experienced the same
>> difficulty when this change in behaviour.
>>
>> I would be interested in current thoughts.
>
> First, note that if you're doing lxc-destroy thinking it is
> 'virsh destroy', then that means the container is running right?
> And lxc-destroy will then print a warning and do nothing.
>
> I'm happy to ack a patch to add [-k|--keep] to lxc-destroy.

Please do it in reverse way (aka [-r|--remove]).
It would be much-much more 'polite' (IMHO:D).

Or just suggest a way to modify containers configuration.

Thank you,
tamas