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
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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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80 Disable locking.
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83 Disables udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for no‐
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85 sible udev processing in the background. Only use this if udev
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88 --profile String
89 An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on
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93 Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --ver‐
94 bose. Repeat once to also suppress any prompts with answer
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97 --reportformat basic|json
98 Overrides current output format for reports which is defined
99 globally by the report/output_format setting in lvm.conf. basic
100 is the original format with columns and rows. If there is more
101 than one report per command, each report is prefixed with the
102 report name for identification. json produces report output in
103 JSON format. See lvmreport(7) for more information.
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105 -S|--select String
106 Select objects for processing and reporting based on specified
107 criteria. The criteria syntax is described by --select help and
108 lvmreport(7). For reporting commands, one row is displayed for
109 each object matching the criteria. See --options help for se‐
110 lectable object fields. Rows can be displayed with an addi‐
111 tional "selected" field (-o selected) showing 1 if the row
112 matches the selection and 0 otherwise. For non-reporting com‐
113 mands which process LVM entities, the selection is used to
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116 -t|--test
117 Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata. This is
118 implemented by disabling all metadata writing but nevertheless
119 returning success to the calling function. This may lead to un‐
120 usual error messages in multi-stage operations if a tool relies
121 on reading back metadata it believes has changed but hasn't.
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123 -v|--verbose ...
124 Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the de‐
125 tail of messages sent to stdout and stderr.
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127 --version
128 Display version information.
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130 -y|--yes
131 Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume
132 the answer yes. Use with extreme caution. (For automatic no,
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136 VG
137 Volume Group name. See lvm(8) for valid names.
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140 Tag name. See lvm(8) for information about tag names and using
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143 Select
144 Select indicates that a required positional parameter can be
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149 See the option description for information about the string con‐
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152 Size[UNIT]
153 Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit. Input
154 units are always treated as base two values, regardless of capi‐
155 talization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024. The default
156 input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT. UNIT rep‐
157 resents other possible input units: bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE. b|B is
158 bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is KiB, m|M is MiB, g|G
159 is GiB, t|T is TiB, p|P is PiB, e|E is EiB. (This should not be
160 confused with the output control --units, where capital letters
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164 See lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm.
165 For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a required VG
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169 lvm(8) lvm.conf(5) lvmconfig(8)
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171 pvchange(8) pvck(8) pvcreate(8) pvdisplay(8) pvmove(8) pvremove(8)
172 pvresize(8) pvs(8) pvscan(8)
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174 vgcfgbackup(8) vgcfgrestore(8) vgchange(8) vgck(8) vgcreate(8) vgcon‐
175 vert(8) vgdisplay(8) vgexport(8) vgextend(8) vgimport(8) vgimport‐
176 clone(8) vgmerge(8) vgmknodes(8) vgreduce(8) vgremove(8) vgrename(8)
177 vgs(8) vgscan(8) vgsplit(8)
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179 lvcreate(8) lvchange(8) lvconvert(8) lvdisplay(8) lvextend(8) lvre‐
180 duce(8) lvremove(8) lvrename(8) lvresize(8) lvs(8) lvscan(8)
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182 lvm-fullreport(8) lvm-lvpoll(8) lvm2-activation-generator(8) blkdeacti‐
183 vate(8) lvmdump(8)
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185 dmeventd(8) lvmpolld(8) lvmlockd(8) lvmlockctl(8) cmirrord(8) lvmd‐
186 busd(8)
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188 lvmsystemid(7) lvmreport(7) lvmraid(7) lvmthin(7) lvmcache(7)
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192Red Hat, Inc. LVM TOOLS 2.03.11(2) (2021-01-08) VGREMOVE(8)