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6 vgremove — Remove volume group(s)
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9 vgremove position_args
10 [ option_args ]
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13 vgremove removes one or more VGs. If LVs exist in the VG, a prompt is
14 used to confirm LV removal.
15 If one or more PVs in the VG are lost, consider vgreduce --removemiss‐
17 ing to make the VG metadata consistent again.
18 Repeat the force option (-ff) to forcibly remove LVs in the VG without
20 confirmation.
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23 vgremove VG|Tag|Select ...
24 [ -f|--force ]
25 [ -S|--select String ]
26 [ --noudevsync ]
27 [ --reportformat basic|json|json_std ]
28 [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]
29 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 [ --devices PV ]
40 [ --devicesfile String ]
41 [ --driverloaded y|n ]
42 [ --journal String ]
43 [ --lockopt String ]
44 [ --longhelp ]
45 [ --nohints ]
46 [ --nolocking ]
47 [ --profile String ]
48 [ --version ]
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51 --commandprofile String
52 The command profile to use for command configuration. See
53 lvm.conf(5) for more information about profiles.
54 --config String
56 Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf(5) set‐
57 tings. The String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf(5), or
58 may use section/field syntax. See lvm.conf(5) for more informa‐
59 tion about config.
60 -d|--debug ...
62 Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail
63 of messages sent to the log file and/or syslog (if configured).
64 --devices PV
66 Restricts the devices that are visible and accessible to the
67 command. Devices not listed will appear to be missing. This op‐
68 tion can be repeated, or accepts a comma separated list of de‐
69 vices. This overrides the devices file.
70 --devicesfile String
72 A file listing devices that LVM should use. The file must exist
73 in /etc/lvm/devices/ and is managed with the lvmdevices(8) com‐
74 mand. This overrides the lvm.conf(5) devices/devicesfile and
75 devices/use_devicesfile settings.
76 --driverloaded y|n
78 If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper.
79 For testing and debugging.
80 -f|--force ...
82 Override various checks, confirmations and protections. Use
83 with extreme caution.
84 -h|--help
86 Display help text.
87 --journal String
89 Record information in the systemd journal. This information is
90 in addition to information enabled by the lvm.conf log/journal
91 setting. command: record information about the command. out‐
92 put: record the default command output. debug: record full com‐
93 mand debugging.
94 --lockopt String
96 Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd. See lvm‐
97 lockd(8) for more information.
98 --longhelp
100 Display long help text.
101 --nohints
103 Do not use the hints file to locate devices for PVs. A command
104 may read more devices to find PVs when hints are not used. The
105 command will still perform standard hint file invalidation where
106 appropriate.
107 --nolocking
109 Disable locking. Use with caution, concurrent commands may pro‐
110 duce incorrect results.
111 --noudevsync
113 Disables udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for no‐
114 tification from udev. It will continue irrespective of any pos‐
115 sible udev processing in the background. Only use this if udev
116 is not running or has rules that ignore the devices LVM creates.
117 --profile String
119 An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on
120 the command.
121 -q|--quiet ...
123 Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --ver‐
124 bose. Repeat once to also suppress any prompts with answer
125 'no'.
126 --reportformat basic|json|json_std
128 Overrides current output format for reports which is defined
129 globally by the report/output_format setting in lvm.conf(5).
130 basic is the original format with columns and rows. If there is
131 more than one report per command, each report is prefixed with
132 the report name for identification. json produces report output
133 in JSON format. json_std produces report output in JSON format
134 which is more compliant with JSON standard. See lvmreport(7)
135 for more information.
136 -S|--select String
138 Select objects for processing and reporting based on specified
139 criteria. The criteria syntax is described by --select help and
140 lvmreport(7). For reporting commands, one row is displayed for
141 each object matching the criteria. See --options help for se‐
142 lectable object fields. Rows can be displayed with an addi‐
143 tional "selected" field (-o selected) showing 1 if the row
144 matches the selection and 0 otherwise. For non-reporting com‐
145 mands which process LVM entities, the selection is used to
146 choose items to process.
147 -t|--test
149 Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata. This is
150 implemented by disabling all metadata writing but nevertheless
151 returning success to the calling function. This may lead to un‐
152 usual error messages in multi-stage operations if a tool relies
153 on reading back metadata it believes has changed but hasn't.
154 -v|--verbose ...
156 Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the de‐
157 tail of messages sent to stdout and stderr.
158 --version
160 Display version information.
161 -y|--yes
163 Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume
164 the answer yes. Use with extreme caution. (For automatic no,
165 see -qq.)
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168 VG Volume Group name. See lvm(8) for valid names.
169 Tag Tag name. See lvm(8) for information about tag names and using
171 tags in place of a VG, LV or PV.
172 Select Select indicates that a required positional parameter can be
174 omitted if the --select option is used. No arg appears in this
175 position.
176 String See the option description for information about the string con‐
178 tent.
179 Size[UNIT]
181 Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit. Input
182 units are always treated as base two values, regardless of capi‐
183 talization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024. The default
184 input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT. UNIT rep‐
185 resents other possible input units: b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors
186 of 512 bytes, k|K is KiB, m|M is MiB, g|G is GiB, t|T is TiB,
187 p|P is PiB, e|E is EiB. (This should not be confused with the
188 output control --units, where capital letters mean multiple of
189 1000.)
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192 See lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm.
193 For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a required VG
194 parameter.
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197 lvm(8), lvm.conf(5), lvmconfig(8), lvmdevices(8),
198 pvchange(8), pvck(8), pvcreate(8), pvdisplay(8), pvmove(8),
200 pvremove(8), pvresize(8), pvs(8), pvscan(8),
201 vgcfgbackup(8), vgcfgrestore(8), vgchange(8), vgck(8), vgcreate(8),
203 vgconvert(8), vgdisplay(8), vgexport(8), vgextend(8), vgimport(8),
204 vgimportclone(8), vgimportdevices(8), vgmerge(8), vgmknodes(8),
205 vgreduce(8), vgremove(8), vgrename(8), vgs(8), vgscan(8), vgsplit(8),
206 lvcreate(8), lvchange(8), lvconvert(8), lvdisplay(8), lvextend(8),
208 lvreduce(8), lvremove(8), lvrename(8), lvresize(8), lvs(8), lvscan(8),
209 lvm-fullreport(8), lvm-lvpoll(8), blkdeactivate(8), lvmdump(8),
211 dmeventd(8), lvmpolld(8), lvmlockd(8), lvmlockctl(8), cmirrord(8),
213 lvmdbusd(8), fsadm(8),
214 lvmsystemid(7), lvmreport(7), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7), lvmcache(7)
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