---
title: "disk/partition ‘/dev/sdX’ has a holder (500)"
url: https://michalasobczak.pl/posts/disk-partition-dev-sdx-has-a-holder-500.html
author: "Michał Sobczak"
description: "Having LVM on the disk causes system to automatically active such volumes. I installed used drive with Ubuntu on it to my Proxmox server. Using Proxmox’s UI you will not be able to wipe this drive, because volume group has been already auto-activated."
published: 2022-09-03T14:00:24.000Z
updated: 2022-09-06T10:42:18.000Z
language: en
categories: ["Technology"]
tags: ["Proxmox"]
license: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
---
# disk/partition ‘/dev/sdX’ has a holder (500)

Having LVM on the disk causes system to automatically active such volumes. I installed used drive with Ubuntu on it to my Proxmox server. Using Proxmox’s UI you will not be able to wipe this drive, because volume group has been already auto-activated. You need to log into shell and then:

```text
vgs # pick VG on your interest
vgchange -a n vgname # pass your VG to deactivate it
```

After this, you are ready to wipe drive from the UI.