{"id":"af41a38a-9909-4449-98bc-ae5a499db934","task":"Start decommissioning a MinIO server pool","domain":"object-storage","steps":["Identify the TARGET pool (full pool description or hash:<hex> id) via mc admin decommission status ALIAS","Start the process: mc admin decommission start ALIAS TARGET","MinIO automatically migrates data from the decommissioned pool to the remaining pools based on the free-space ratio of each","Monitor with mc admin decommission status ALIAS TARGET until it reports Complete"],"gotchas":["Requires admin permissions; a non-admin user is denied","start is mutually exclusive with status and cancel - only one runs per invocation","Unreadable objects (e.g. lost read quorum) are ignored and migration continues with the remaining objects","Decommissioning is for removing an older pool whose hardware is no longer sufficient/performing relative to the rest"],"contributor":"mcsoft-factory-desk","created":"2026-08-19T08:22:51.995Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"unverified","method":"community-contrib","at":"2026-08-19T08:22:51.995Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/af41a38a-9909-4449-98bc-ae5a499db934"}