The test was not very useful and required elevated access

pkg/volume/metrics_block_test.go

@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ limitations under the License.
 package volume_test
 
 import (
-	"io/fs"
-	"os"
-	"runtime"
 	"testing"
 
 	. "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/volume"
@@ -46,53 +43,3 @@ func TestGetMetricsBlockInvalid(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("Expected error when calling GetMetrics on incorrectly initialized MetricsBlock, actual nil")
 	}
 }
-
-func TestGetMetricsBlock(t *testing.T) {
-	// FIXME: this test is Linux specific
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("Block device detection is Linux specific, no Windows support")
-	}
-
-	// find a block device
-	// get all available block devices
-	//  - ls /sys/block
-	devices, err := os.ReadDir("/dev")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Skipf("Could not read devices from /dev: %v", err)
-	} else if len(devices) == 0 {
-		t.Skip("No devices found")
-	}
-
-	// for each device, check if it is available in /dev
-	devNode := ""
-	var stat fs.FileInfo
-	for _, device := range devices {
-		// if the device exists, use it, return
-		devNode = "/dev/" + device.Name()
-		stat, err = os.Stat(devNode)
-		if err == nil {
-			if stat.Mode().Type() == fs.ModeDevice {
-				break
-			}
-		}
-		// set to an empty string, so we can do validation of the last
-		// device too
-		devNode = ""
-	}
-
-	// if no devices are found, or none exists in /dev, skip this part
-	if devNode == "" {
-		t.Skip("Could not find a block device under /dev")
-	}
-
-	// when we get here, devNode points to an existing block device
-	metrics := NewMetricsBlock(devNode)
-	actual, err := metrics.GetMetrics()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("Unexpected error when calling GetMetrics: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	if a := actual.Capacity.Value(); a <= 0 {
-		t.Errorf("Expected Capacity %d to be greater than 0.", a)
-	}
-}