Ubuntu Manpage: vgremove - Remove volume group(s)

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NAME

       vgremove - Remove volume group(s)

SYNOPSIS

       vgremove position_args
           [ option_args ]

DESCRIPTION

       vgremove  removes  one or more VGs. If LVs exist in the VG, a prompt is used to confirm LV
       removal.

       If one or more PVs in the VG are lost, consider vgreduce --removemissing to  make  the  VG
       metadata consistent again.

       Repeat the force option (-ff) to forcibly remove LVs in the VG without confirmation.

USAGE

       vgremove VG|Tag|Select ...
           [ -f|--force ]
           [ -S|--select String ]
           [    --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 ]
           [    --lockopt String ]
           [    --longhelp ]
           [    --nolocking ]
           [    --profile String ]
           [    --version ]

OPTIONS

--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 settings. 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.

--lockopt String
Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd. See lvmlockd(8) for more
information.

--longhelp
Display long help text.

--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. 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

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

       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: 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.