1VGREMOVE(8) System Manager's Manual VGREMOVE(8)
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6 vgremove - Remove volume group(s)
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9 vgremove position_args
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13 vgremove removes one or more VGs. If LVs exist in the VG, a prompt is
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16 If one or more PVs in the VG are lost, consider vgreduce --removemiss‐
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19 Repeat the force option (-ff) to forcibly remove LVs in the VG without
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23 vgremove VG|Tag|Select ...
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25 [ -S|--select String ]
26 [ --noudevsync ]
27 [ --reportformat basic|json ]
28 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
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30 Common options for lvm:
31 [ -d|--debug ]
32 [ -h|--help ]
33 [ -q|--quiet ]
34 [ -t|--test ]
35 [ -v|--verbose ]
36 [ -y|--yes ]
37 [ --commandprofile String ]
38 [ --config String ]
39 [ --driverloaded y|n ]
40 [ --lockopt String ]
41 [ --longhelp ]
42 [ --nolocking ]
43 [ --profile String ]
44 [ --version ]
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47 --commandprofile String
48 The command profile to use for command configuration. See
49 lvm.conf(5) for more information about profiles.
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51 --config String
52 Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf set‐
53 tings. The String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf, or may
54 use section/field syntax. See lvm.conf(5) for more information
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57 -d|--debug ...
58 Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail
59 of messages sent to the log file and/or syslog (if configured).
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61 --driverloaded y|n
62 If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper.
63 For testing and debugging.
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65 -f|--force ...
66 Override various checks, confirmations and protections. Use
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69 -h|--help
70 Display help text.
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72 --lockopt String
73 Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd. See lvm‐
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77 Display long help text.
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79 --nolocking
80 Disable locking.
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83 Disables udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for
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85 possible udev processing in the background. Only use this if
86 udev is not running or has rules that ignore the devices LVM
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89 --profile String
90 An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on
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93 -q|--quiet ...
94 Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --ver‐
95 bose. Repeat once to also suppress any prompts with answer
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98 --reportformat basic|json
99 Overrides current output format for reports which is defined
100 globally by the report/output_format setting in lvm.conf. basic
101 is the original format with columns and rows. If there is more
102 than one report per command, each report is prefixed with the
103 report name for identification. json produces report output in
104 JSON format. See lvmreport(7) for more information.
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106 -S|--select String
107 Select objects for processing and reporting based on specified
108 criteria. The criteria syntax is described by --select help and
109 lvmreport(7). For reporting commands, one row is displayed for
110 each object matching the criteria. See --options help for
111 selectable object fields. Rows can be displayed with an addi‐
112 tional "selected" field (-o selected) showing 1 if the row
113 matches the selection and 0 otherwise. For non-reporting com‐
114 mands which process LVM entities, the selection is used to
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117 -t|--test
118 Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata. This is
119 implemented by disabling all metadata writing but nevertheless
120 returning success to the calling function. This may lead to
121 unusual error messages in multi-stage operations if a tool
122 relies on reading back metadata it believes has changed but
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125 -v|--verbose ...
126 Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the
127 detail of messages sent to stdout and stderr.
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129 --version
130 Display version information.
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132 -y|--yes
133 Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume
134 the answer yes. Use with extreme caution. (For automatic no,
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138 VG
139 Volume Group name. See lvm(8) for valid names.
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142 Tag name. See lvm(8) for information about tag names and using
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145 Select
146 Select indicates that a required positional parameter can be
147 omitted if the --select option is used. No arg appears in this
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154 Size[UNIT]
155 Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit. Input
156 units are always treated as base two values, regardless of capi‐
157 talization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024. The default
158 input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT. UNIT rep‐
159 resents other possible input units: bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE. b|B is
160 bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is kilobytes, m|M is
161 megabytes, g|G is gigabytes, t|T is terabytes, p|P is petabytes,
162 e|E is exabytes. (This should not be confused with the output
163 control --units, where capital letters mean multiple of 1000.)
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166 See lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm.
167 For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a required VG
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171 lvm(8) lvm.conf(5) lvmconfig(8)
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173 pvchange(8) pvck(8) pvcreate(8) pvdisplay(8) pvmove(8) pvremove(8)
174 pvresize(8) pvs(8) pvscan(8)
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176 vgcfgbackup(8) vgcfgrestore(8) vgchange(8) vgck(8) vgcreate(8) vgcon‐
177 vert(8) vgdisplay(8) vgexport(8) vgextend(8) vgimport(8) vgimport‐
178 clone(8) vgmerge(8) vgmknodes(8) vgreduce(8) vgremove(8) vgrename(8)
179 vgs(8) vgscan(8) vgsplit(8)
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181 lvcreate(8) lvchange(8) lvconvert(8) lvdisplay(8) lvextend(8) lvre‐
182 duce(8) lvremove(8) lvrename(8) lvresize(8) lvs(8) lvscan(8)
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184 lvm-fullreport(8) lvm-lvpoll(8) lvm2-activation-generator(8) blkdeacti‐
185 vate(8) lvmdump(8)
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187 dmeventd(8) lvmpolld(8) lvmlockd(8) lvmlockctl(8) cmirrord(8) lvmd‐
188 busd(8)
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190 lvmsystemid(7) lvmreport(7) lvmraid(7) lvmthin(7) lvmcache(7)
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194Red Hat, Inc. LVM TOOLS 2.03.10(2) (2020-08-09) VGREMOVE(8)