diff --git a/lib/lvm b/lib/lvm
index ae6023a836..b9d7c390a2 100644
--- a/lib/lvm
+++ b/lib/lvm
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ function init_lvm_volume_group {
     if [ "$CINDER_ISCSI_HELPER" = "lioadm" ]; then
         sudo cinder-rtstool get-targets | sudo xargs -rn 1 cinder-rtstool delete
     else
-        sudo tgtadm --op show --mode target | grep Target | cut -f3 -d ' ' | sudo xargs -n1 tgt-admin --delete || true
+        sudo tgtadm --op show --mode target | awk '/Target/ {print $3}' | sudo xargs -r -n1 tgt-admin --delete
     fi
     _clean_lvm_volume_group $vg
 }