man > lvremove(8)

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

NAME
       lvremove — Remove logical volume(s) from the system

SYNOPSIS
       lvremove position_args
           [ option_args ]

DESCRIPTION
       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  can‐
       not  be  deactivated or removed while they are open (e.g.  if they contain a mounted filesys‐
       tem). 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  repre‐
       sentation  of the LV will be retained. This includes the time of removal (lv_time_removed re‐
       porting 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
       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


       -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 infor‐
              mation 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
              Restricts the devices that are visible and accessible to  the  command.   Devices  not
              listed will appear to be missing. This option can be repeated, or accepts a comma sep‐
              arated 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)  de‐
              vices/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 de‐
              bugging.

       -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  infor‐
              mation 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 informa‐
              tion.

       --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 configura‐
              tion setting metadata/record_lvs_history is enabled.

       --nolocking
              Disable locking. Use with caution, concurrent commands may produce incorrect  results.


       --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  re‐
              port/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 selec‐
              table  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-report‐
              ing 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 read‐
              ing 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 positional arg generally in‐
              cludes 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
       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

SEE ALSO
       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), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7), lvmcache(7)

Red Hat, Inc.                     LVM TOOLS 2.03.16(2) (2022-05-18)                      LVREMOVE(8)