plucky (8) vgremove.8.gz

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|json_std ]
           [ 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

       --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
              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 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.

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

       --noudevsync
              Disables udev synchronization. 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|json_std
              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. json_std produces report output in  JSON  format  which  is
              more compliant with JSON standard.  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:  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.

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), lvmcache(7), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7), lvmvdo(7), lvmautoactivation(7)