Failed to provision internal kvdb: Make sure the drives are cleaned up before reinstalling on this node."

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Portworx fails when I use “use existing disks” option to generate the StorageCluster spec and then use it to deploy Portworx(using the operator method):

failed to provision internal kvdb: failed in initializing drives on this node: scan found drives [/dev/sda] from previous installation: found a drive /dev/sda which is initialize with node id . Make sure the drives are cleaned up before reinstalling on this node."

How do I cleanup the nodes. I’m able to exec to the portworx container but not able to run wipe commands.

sh-4.4# /opt/pwx/bin/pxctl service node-wipe
Error: Node is not down and is expected to be down for this operation. Please stop Portworx and try again.

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Hi Abhinav,

You need to edit your storagespec and add the line and then delete the storageCluster, that will make sure any previous install on disk will be wiped out.

spec:
  deleteStrategy:
    type: UninstallAndWipe
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