lvremove(8) — Linux manual page

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LVREMOVE(8)              System Manager's Manual             LVREMOVE(8)

NAME         top

       lvremove — Remove logical volume(s) from the system

SYNOPSIS         top

       lvremove position_args
           [ option_args ]

DESCRIPTION         top

       lvremove removes one or more LVs. For standard LVs, this returns
       the logical extents that were used by the LV to the VG for use by
       other LVs.

       Confirmation will be requested before deactivating any active LV
       prior to removal.  LVs cannot be deactivated or removed while
       they are open (e.g.  if they contain a mounted filesystem).
       Removing an origin LV will also remove all dependent snapshots.

       When a single force option is used, LVs are removed without
       confirmation, and the command will try to deactivate unused LVs.

       To remove damaged LVs, two force options may be required (-ff).

       Historical LVs

       If the configuration setting metadata/record_lvs_history is
       enabled and the LV being removed forms part of the history of at
       least one LV that is still present, then a simplified
       representation of the LV will be retained. This includes the time
       of removal (lv_time_removed reporting field), creation time
       (lv_time), name (lv_name), LV uuid (lv_uuid) and VG name
       (vg_name). This allows later reporting to see the ancestry chain
       of thin snapshot volumes, even after some intermediate LVs have
       been removed. The names of such historical LVs acquire a hyphen
       as a prefix (e.g. '-lvol1') and cannot be reactivated.  Use
       lvremove a second time, with the hyphen, to remove the record of
       the former LV completely.

USAGE         top

       lvremove VG|LV|Tag|Select ...
           [ -A|--autobackup y|n ]
           [ -f|--force ]
           [ -S|--select String ]
           [    --nohistory ]
           [    --noudevsync ]
           [    --reportformat basic|json ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]

       Common options for lvm:
           [ -d|--debug ]
           [ -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         top


       -A|--autobackup y|n
              Specifies  if  metadata  should be backed up automatically
              after a change.  Enabling this is  strongly  advised!  See
              vgcfgbackup(8) for more information.

       --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
              Devices  that  the  command  can  use.  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.

       --nohistory
              Do  not  record history of LVs being removed.  This has no
              effect     unless      the      configuration      setting
              metadata/record_lvs_history is enabled.

       --nolocking
              Disable locking.

       --noudevsync
              Disables  udev  synchronisation. 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
              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. 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         top

       VG     Volume Group name.  See lvm(8) for valid names.

       LV     Logical Volume name.  See lvm(8) for valid names.  An LV
              positional arg generally includes the VG name and LV name,
              e.g. VG/LV.

       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         top

       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.

EXAMPLES         top

       Remove an active LV without asking for confirmation.
       lvremove -f vg00/lvol1

       Remove all LVs the specified VG.
       lvremove vg00

SEE ALSO         top

       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)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the lvm2 (Logical Volume Manager 2) project.
       Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://www.sourceware.org/lvm2/⟩.  If you have a bug report for
       this manual page, see ⟨https://github.com/lvmteam/lvm2/issues⟩.
       This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨git://sourceware.org/git/lvm2.git⟩ on 2024-06-14.  (At that
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Red Hat, Inc.     LVM TOOLS 2.03.25(2)-git (2024-05-16)      LVREMOVE(8)

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