pool-start

Starts a defined inactive storage pool.

Syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagram pool-start  --pool <pool-name><pool-UUID>
Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagram --build --overwrite --no-overwrite
Where:
<pool-name>
Is the name of the storage pool.
<pool-UUID>
Is the UUID of the storage pool.

Selected options

--pool
Specifies the storage pool.
--build
Creates the directory or the file system or creates the label for a disk (depending on the storage pool type) before starting the storage pool.
--overwrite
Only valid for storage pools of type dir, fs, or netfs.

Creates the directory, the file system or the label, overwriting existing ones.

--no-overwrite
Only valid for storage pools of type dir, fs, or netfs.

Creates the directory or the file system only if it does not exist. Returns an error if it does exist.

Usage

Managing storage pools

Example

This example starts storage pool pool1.
# virsh pool-start pool1