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6 vgreduce - reduce a volume group
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9 vgreduce [-a|--all] [-A|--autobackup y|n] [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help]
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14 vgreduce allows you to remove one or more unused physical volumes from
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24 --removemissing
25 Removes all missing physical volumes from the volume group, if
26 there are no logical volumes allocated on those. This resumes
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35 Any logical volumes and dependent snapshots that were partly on
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40 that are lost, you might want to try to salvage data first by
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