LVREMOVE(8)LVREMOVE(8)NAMElvremove - Remove logical volume(s) from the system
SYNOPSISlvremove position_args
[ option_args ]
DESCRIPTIONlvremove 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 confirma‐
tion, 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 sec‐
ond time, with the hyphen, to remove the record of the former LV com‐
pletely.
USAGElvremove 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 ]
[ --driverloaded y|n ]
[ --longhelp ]
[ --profile String ]
[ --version ]
OPTIONS
-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 set‐
tings. The String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf, 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).
--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.
--longhelp
Display long help text.
--nohistory
Do not record history of LVs being removed. This has no effect
unless the configuration setting metadata/record_lvs_history is
enabled.
--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 --ver‐
bose. 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. 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 addi‐
tional "selected" field (-o selected) showing 1 if the row
matches the selection and 0 otherwise. For non-reporting com‐
mands 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
VG
Volume Group name. See lvm(8) for valid names.
LV
Logical Volume name. See lvm(8) for valid names. An LV posi‐
tional 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 con‐
tent.
Size[UNIT]
Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit. Input
units are always treated as base two values, regardless of capi‐
talization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024. The default
input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT. UNIT rep‐
resents other possible input units: bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE. b|B is
bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is kilobytes, m|M is
megabytes, g|G is gigabytes, t|T is terabytes, p|P is petabytes,
e|E is exabytes. (This should not be confused with the output
control --units, where capital letters mean multiple of 1000.)
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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
Remove an active LV without asking for confirmation.
lvremove-f vg00/lvol1
Remove all LVs the specified VG.
lvremove vg00
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vert(8)vgdisplay(8)vgexport(8)vgextend(8)vgimport(8) vgimport‐
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duce(8)lvremove(8)lvrename(8)lvresize(8)lvs(8)lvscan(8)lvm-fullreport(8)lvm-lvpoll(8)lvm2-activation-generator(8) blkdeacti‐
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