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VGREMOVE(8) | System Manager's Manual | VGREMOVE(8) |
NAME¶
vgremove — Remove volume group(s)
SYNOPSIS¶
vgremove position_args
[ option_args ]
DESCRIPTION¶
vgremove removes one or more VGs. If LVs exist in the VG, a prompt is used to confirm LV removal.
If one or more PVs in the VG are lost, consider vgreduce --removemissing to make the VG metadata consistent again.
Repeat the force option (-ff) to forcibly remove LVs in the VG without confirmation.
USAGE¶
vgremove VG|Tag|Select ...
[ -S|--select String ]
[ --noudevsync ]
[ --reportformat basic|json|json_std ]
[ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
Common options for lvm:
[ -h|--help ]
[ -q|--quiet ]
[ -t|--test ]
[ -v|--verbose ]
[ -y|--yes ]
[ --commandprofile String ]
[ --config String ]
[ --devices PV ]
[ --devicesfile String ]
[ --driverloaded y|n ]
[ --journal String ]
[ --lockopt String ]
[ --longhelp ]
[ --nohints ]
[ --nolocking ]
[ --profile String ]
[ --version ]
OPTIONS¶
--commandprofile String
The command profile to use for command configuration. See lvm.conf(5)
for more information about profiles.
--config String
Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf(5) settings.
The String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf(5), or may use
section/field syntax. See lvm.conf(5) for more information about
config.
-d|--debug ...
Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail of messages
sent to the log file and/or syslog (if configured).
--devices PV
Restricts the devices that are visible and accessible to the command. Devices
not listed will appear to be missing. This option can be repeated, or
accepts a comma separated list of devices. This overrides the devices
file.
--devicesfile String
A file listing devices that LVM should use. The file must exist in
/etc/lvm/devices/ and is managed with the lvmdevices(8)
command. This overrides the lvm.conf(5) devices/devicesfile
and devices/use_devicesfile settings.
--driverloaded y|n
If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper. For testing
and debugging.
-f|--force ...
Override various checks, confirmations and protections. Use with extreme
caution.
-h|--help
Display help text.
--journal String
Record information in the systemd journal. This information is in addition to
information enabled by the lvm.conf log/journal setting. command: record
information about the command. output: record the default command output.
debug: record full command debugging.
--lockopt String
Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd. See lvmlockd(8) for
more information.
--longhelp
Display long help text.
--nohints
Do not use the hints file to locate devices for PVs. A command may read more
devices to find PVs when hints are not used. The command will still perform
standard hint file invalidation where appropriate.
--nolocking
Disable locking. Use with caution, concurrent commands may produce incorrect
results.
--noudevsync
Disables udev synchronization. The process will not wait for notification from
udev. It will continue irrespective of any possible udev processing in the
background. Only use this if udev is not running or has rules that ignore
the devices LVM creates.
--profile String
An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on the
command.
-q|--quiet ...
Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --verbose. Repeat once
to also suppress any prompts with answer 'no'.
--reportformat basic|json|json_std
Overrides current output format for reports which is defined globally by the
report/output_format setting in lvm.conf(5). basic is the
original format with columns and rows. If there is more than one report per
command, each report is prefixed with the report name for identification.
json produces report output in JSON format. json_std produces
report output in JSON format which is more compliant with JSON standard. See
lvmreport(7) for more information.
-S|--select String
Select objects for processing and reporting based on specified criteria. The
criteria syntax is described by --select help and
lvmreport(7). For reporting commands, one row is displayed for each
object matching the criteria. See --options help for selectable
object fields. Rows can be displayed with an additional "selected"
field (-o selected) showing 1 if the row matches the selection and 0
otherwise. For non-reporting commands which process LVM entities, the
selection is used to choose items to process.
-t|--test
Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata. This is implemented by
disabling all metadata writing but nevertheless returning success to the
calling function. This may lead to unusual error messages in multi-stage
operations if a tool relies on reading back metadata it believes has changed
but hasn't.
-v|--verbose ...
Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the detail of messages
sent to stdout and stderr.
--version
Display version information.
-y|--yes
Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume the answer yes.
Use with extreme caution. (For automatic no, see -qq.)
VARIABLES¶
- VG
- Volume Group name. See lvm(8) for valid names.
- Tag
- Tag name. See lvm(8) for information about tag names and using tags in place of a VG, LV or PV.
- Select
- Select indicates that a required positional parameter can be omitted if the --select option is used. No arg appears in this position.
- String
- See the option description for information about the string content.
- Size[UNIT]
- Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit. Input units are always treated as base two values, regardless of capitalization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024. The default input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT. UNIT represents other possible input units: b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is KiB, m|M is MiB, g|G is GiB, t|T is TiB, p|P is PiB, e|E is EiB. (This should not be confused with the output control --units, where capital letters mean multiple of 1000.)
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶
See lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm. For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a required VG parameter.
SEE ALSO¶
lvm(8), lvm.conf(5), lvmconfig(8), lvmdevices(8),
pvchange(8), pvck(8), pvcreate(8), pvdisplay(8), pvmove(8), pvremove(8), pvresize(8), pvs(8), pvscan(8),
vgcfgbackup(8), vgcfgrestore(8), vgchange(8), vgck(8), vgcreate(8), vgconvert(8), vgdisplay(8), vgexport(8), vgextend(8), vgimport(8), vgimportclone(8), vgimportdevices(8), vgmerge(8), vgmknodes(8), vgreduce(8), vgremove(8), vgrename(8), vgs(8), vgscan(8), vgsplit(8),
lvcreate(8), lvchange(8), lvconvert(8), lvdisplay(8), lvextend(8), lvreduce(8), lvremove(8), lvrename(8), lvresize(8), lvs(8), lvscan(8),
lvm-fullreport(8), lvm-lvpoll(8), blkdeactivate(8), lvmdump(8),
dmeventd(8), lvmpolld(8), lvmlockd(8), lvmlockctl(8), cmirrord(8), lvmdbusd(8), fsadm(8),
lvmsystemid(7), lvmreport(7), lvmcache(7), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7), lvmvdo(7), lvmautoactivation(7)
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