# Persistent Volumes — PersistentVolume deletion protection finalizer

> Finalizers can be added on a PersistentVolume to ensure that PersistentVolumes having Delete reclaim policy are deleted only after the backing storage are deleted.

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Finalizers can be added on a PersistentVolume to ensure that PersistentVolumes having Delete reclaim policy are deleted only after the backing storage are deleted.

The finalizer external-provisioner.volume.kubernetes.io/finalizer(introduced in v1.31) is added to both dynamically provisioned and statically provisioned CSI volumes.

The finalizer kubernetes.io/pv-controller(introduced in v1.31) is added to dynamically provisioned in-tree plugin volumes and skipped for statically provisioned in-tree plugin volumes.

The following is an example of dynamically provisioned in-tree plugin volume

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl describe pv pvc-74a498d6-3929-47e8-8c02-078c1ece4d78
Name:            pvc-74a498d6-3929-47e8-8c02-078c1ece4d78
Labels:          &lt;none&gt;
Annotations:     kubernetes.io/createdby: vsphere-volume-dynamic-provisioner
                 pv.kubernetes.io/bound-by-controller: yes
                 pv.kubernetes.io/provisioned-by: kubernetes.io/vsphere-volume
Finalizers:      [kubernetes.io/pv-protection kubernetes.io/pv-controller]
StorageClass:    vcp-sc
Status:          Bound
Claim:           default/vcp-pvc-1
Reclaim Policy:  Delete
Access Modes:    RWO
VolumeMode:      Filesystem
Capacity:        1Gi
Node Affinity:   &lt;none&gt;
Message:
Source:
    Type:               vSphereVolume (a Persistent Disk resource in vSphere)
    VolumePath:         [vsanDatastore] d49c4a62-166f-ce12-c464-020077ba5d46/kubernetes-dynamic-pvc-74a498d6-3929-47e8-8c02-078c1ece4d78.vmdk
    FSType:             ext4
```

The finalizer external-provisioner.volume.kubernetes.io/finalizer is added for CSI volumes. The following is an example …

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