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Change the Reclaim Policy of a PersistentVolume — Changing the reclaim policy of a PersistentVolume

List the PersistentVolumes in your cluster Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl get pv ``` The output is similar to this Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```none NAME CAPACITY ACCESSMODES RECLAIMPOLICY STATUS CLAIM ST

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). List the PersistentVolumes in your cluster Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl get pv ``` The output is similar to this Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```none NAME CAPACITY ACCESSMODES RECLAIMPOLICY STATUS CLAIM STORAGECLASS REASON AGE pvc-b6efd8da-b7b5-11e6-9d58-0ed433a7dd94 4Gi RWO Delete Bound default/claim1 manual 10s pvc-b95650f8-b7b5-11e6-9d58-0ed433a7dd94 4Gi RWO Delete Bound default/claim2 manual 6s pvc-bb3ca71d-b7b5-11e6-9d58-0ed433a7dd94 4Gi RWO Delete Bound default/claim3 manual 3s ``` This list also includes the name of the claims that are bound to each volume for easier identification of dynamically provisioned volumes. Choose one of your PersistentVolumes and change its reclaim policy Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl patch pv <your-pv-name> -p '{"spec":{"persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy":"Retain"}}' ``` where is the name of your chosen PersistentVolume. On Windows, you must _double_ quote any JSONPath template that contains spaces (not single quote as shown above for bash). This in turn means that you must use a single quote or escaped double quote around any literals in the template. For example Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```cmd kubectl patch pv <your-pv-name> -p "{\"spec\":{\"persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy\":\"Retain\"}}" ``` Verify that your chosen PersistentVolume has the right policy Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl get pv ``` The output is similar to this … Attribution: Adapted from Kubernetes Documentation under CC-BY-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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