* run multipath -ll on the KVM host and find all disks on that multipath
```
- finzi-srv (3600c0ff00027786c874edd5701000000) dm-52 HP,MSA 2040 SAN
- size=75G features='2 queue_if_no_path retain_attached_hw_handler' hwhandler='0' wp=rw
- |-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=50 status=active
- | |- 1:0:2:4 sdeu 129:96 active ready running
- | |- 1:0:3:4 sdhu 134:64 active ready running
- | |- 2:0:0:4 sdaa 65:160 active ready running
- | `- 2:0:2:4 sdfz 131:80 active ready running
- `-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=10 status=enabled
- |- 1:0:0:4 sdf 8:80 active ready running
- |- 1:0:1:4 sdbu 68:128 active ready running
- |- 2:0:1:4 sdcz 70:112 active ready running
- `- 2:0:3:4 sdja 8:320 active ready running
-
+echo -n "multipath device to remove: " &&
+export LC_ALL=C &&
+read $path &&
+dm=$(sudo multipath -ll | grep "$path " | awk '{print $3}') &&
+cd /sys/devices/virtual/block/$dm/slaves &&
+devices=$(ls -1) &&
+blockdev --flushbufs /dev/$dm &&
+multipath -f $path &&
+for device in $(echo $devices); do blockdev --flushbufs /dev/$device; echo 1 > "/sys/block/$device/device/delete"; done
```
- * for each disk in those multipath run
-
- echo 1 > /sys/block/sdX/device/delete
-
- * once done, remove that multpath-device from multipath
-
- multipath -f finzi-srv
* remove the paths in the MSA