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Unable to delete Snaplock Volume even after expiry

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • SnapLock

Issue

  • Deletion of Snaplock Volume which was set to offline status failed with below error:
Error: command failed: Failed to delete the volume "<volume_name>" in Vserver "<vserver_name>". The volume has unexpired WORM files or it contains files under legal hold or it contains unexpired locked snapshots or the volume is an unexpired SnapLock Enterprise audit log volume or the volume must be made online in order to permit a pending WAFL scan to complete.

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