When terminating a volume, openstack default overwrites the complete volume with zero’s for security reasons. This can take a long time, especially with large volumes. If security isn’t an issue in your environment, you can speed-up deletion to only overwrite the first 1GB with zero’s, which will then delete only the mbr, partition table and the first part of the filesystem. See this post ( https://dijks.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/how-to-speedup-removal-of-a-volume/) for a brief tutorial to speed-up removal of a volume if security isn't an issue. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20120709/8d8e8b2e/attachment.html>